Sunday morning

During the early morning they turned the oscillator down to 21! He is handling it really well. So tonight will be 20, and tomorrow morning they'll try 19, if he tolerates that, they'll switch him to the ventilator sometime tomorrow. I can't even express the joy and thankfulness I felt when Andre called and told me (I slept at the hotel, he stayed at the hospital last night). I was just in tears and very quickly on my knees to thank my Heavenly Father. I don't think I've stopped saying "thank you" in my mind all day.

They turned his last blood pressure med down to 8 from 10, and lowered his diruretic again (the nurse said she actually had to call and double check the dosage b/c it was so low she thought it was a mistake!). His kidney numbers went down another point, so that is a very good sign. His oxygenation is still 100% with only a teeny bit of help from the oscillator. His blood pressure is in the 90s/100s, and his heart rate has been in the 140s.

He did spike another small fever this morning, to 100, so they are putting ice packs on him and keeping an eye on it. But again, they said its normal while he is fighting off this infection. One side of his chest looked higher than the other, too, but they did a chest x-ray and multiple doctors have looked at it and they don't think its anything to worry about. It makes me nervous, but they said it would be messing with his ability to oxygenate if it was fluid build-up or something.

The ward members here in LA are taking us to church for sacrament today, and then to the temple afterwards (we're not doing a session, just walking around). It will be nice to be able to show our gratitude in God's house though.

I am still super nervous about any setbacks that may happen. But things have been so good the last couple of days. We are so grateful that drain in his abdomen has seemed to help everything. We all feel that Andre was inspired to mention it to the doctors that morning.

I just can't wait to see him awake. I get in tears just thinking about it. I just want to hold him and hug him and see him looking at me. I am so thankful to all the doctors and nurses and medical staff here at UCLA. I don't think he could be anywhere better. And thank you, thank you, thank you to all our friends and family that have been so diligently praying for Gavin this whole week. I can't express it enough.

He still has a lot of road ahead of him, so he still needs all the prayers he can get. But today is a very good day. If he can just get through the rest of the weekend and onto the vent, he'll be in a much better position. We have been reading all the comments on the blog to Gavin, so comment away! We love to read them. :D