A BUSY DAY FOR RON

Ron's fever finally broker around 4-5am today. His heart rhythm finally converted back to normal rhythm at 6:30am today. His blood pressure was a bit on the low side starting out. His nurse said he was a bit hypotensive most of the night...I am sure it was due to the medication they were giving him to lower his heart rate. It took until mid morning for it to come up to normal range. Once it did...everything stayed stable the rest of the day. He had his new vas catheter put in. He had his plasmapheresis done and his hemodialysis as well. He seemed to tolerate them both very well. He managed to keep his temp down throughout the day. His chest x-rays show improvement everyday. After dialysis tonight...he started having some urine output. Around 8:30pm tonight his temp started creeping up again. I don't know what it is about the evening that causing his temp to start spiking. But, the infectious disease doctors did forewarn us that he would probably still have fever spikes for the next couple of days. He just went down for a CAT scan of his belly and his chest. Hopefully, we can keep his fever to a minimum range ..I really need to get some sleep tonight. I stayed up with his nurse last night trying to get his temp under control until 1:30am...and I was up by 6:30am. Tomorrow they may try to start waking him up out of sedation and see if they can start coming off the ventilator slowly. I will keep you posted. Thank you to all my church family who continue to offer prayer and offer help in any way for us. We love you all so much ....if there are any of you willing to make the drive to Tucson and have a prayer group come together to pray over Ron...it would mean so much...but only if you all have the time to come down. I think it would do him and me a world of good to have people that are a part of our church family here. Ron is at UMC, 4th floor ...#4708...Tucson AZ

Praise to our merciful God....he answers our prayers...he gives us hope!