He's having a much better afternoon than morning. His numbers have all improved and a lot of his meds have been stopped and they are working on the others. He's still on the vent but his O2 has come up and his blood pressure has come up and stabilized some. Dr. Yamani said he was much better compared to this morning.

He's calmed down some. They are not sedating him as much, just controlling the pain. His fever is down, but he still has a fever. He really wants the vent removed. His mouth is getting very dry and he hates when they suction it. But he's communicating a little, winks for the females, thumbs up for the males.

I watched as they changed his dressing for the first time. This is the main thing that I will do for him before we can even leave the hospital. It didn't look that difficult, just a lot of preparation. The main thing is keeping everything sterile.

The wound and the incision look very good. The wound is where the drive line comes outside the body. It's a little bigger around than a pencil and comes out through his abdomen and it attached with a single stitch. I don't know if the stitch will come out once the wound seals or not. But, it was not disgusting or nasty to look at. He also has 4 chest tubes that will come out and those sites looked good. We didn't see all of the incision (from top to bottom) but what we could see looked quite good. By we I'm referring to Mary Rose and myself. Bill wanted her in the room too.

So, things are looking a little better this afternoon than they did this morning but he still has a long way to go. We're letting him rest some more since that is what he needs the most.

All for now.