Downhill

James has not improved much since yesterday. His cough is oh so ragged! It seems that there is still a fair amount of swelling in his wind pipe, for his breathing is still quite laboured. He has had a few doses of Dexamethasone to counter the swelling, but he may need some more tonight yet. (As an aside, I had the privilege of administering Dexamethasone to a sow back on the farm with fantastic results: she went from lame to running overnight...just too bad for me that I left her loose in the aisle). The X-ray he had this morning did not show as wonderful of a cleaning as on his left lung, but this may be to the extra fluid that couldn't be extracted. He's still SATing 95-96% on 0.5L of O2, but is not able to go without yet. We are still waiting to get a Low-Flow valve for his O2, since the one he is on only goes as low as 0.5L, but it seems to be a rare commodity. Although they wanted to do a CT scan in a couple weeks to get a "clean" picture on file, they are trying to get this done on Monday already, and we're thinking because the X-ray wasn't that great. James has had higher fevers today (over 39 C), and did not subside significantly with Tylenol nor Advil.

So all in all, James isn't out of the woods yet. This is somewhat of a let down, but after all he went through this week, it is to be expected. It's just that he did so well after the 1st one...

I sign of wishing you all a blessed Sunday. May we all be nourished by God's Word, that we may continue to examine our lives by it, and more and more realize what an unmerrited gift of grace we have received.