Update...

Well, we just got home from visiting Uncle Pete...

According to the doctors in the ICU Uncle Peter has ARDS. 

ARDS leads to a buildup of fluid in the air sacs. This fluid prevents enough oxygen from passing into the bloodstream.

The fluid buildup also makes the lungs heavy and stiff, and decreases the lungs' ability to expand. The level of oxygen in the blood can stay dangerously low, even if the person receives oxygen from a breathing machine (mechanical ventilator) through a breathing tube (endotracheal tube).

ARDS often occurs along with the failure of other organ systems, such as the liver or the kidneys. 

If you are interesting in finding out more you can look it up on line...

The last Xray that was taken this afternoon on his lungs, did look better, but wasn't very good.  There is lots of cloudy fluid all over his lungs.  

He was taken off of the ventilator for a two hour test run today and did OK...

He began to tire out at the end.  Just like when you stop running.  He was making much more progress in waking up.  Last night we only got a flutter of the eye lids, and today he was actually following us slowly.  Especially, Aunt Mary Patrice!  He isn't following commands, which is a little concerning.  They are planning on seeing if this changes tomorrow...  If nothing has changed they are going to follow with a CT of the brain.  

Please, please say your prayers that there is nothing wrong with the brain...

We have been reassured over and over again, that since the kidneys and the liver aren't working properly it takes the body a lot longer to break up or pass the sedation medication.  We have to remember that he was on these meds for 10 days...  A long time!

Well, I'm pooped!

I have held Uncle Pete's hand and have told him that we are all rooting for him.  I kiss him on the forehead before I leave and tell him it is from all of us...!  

Keep saying your prayers...

elizabeth