Again, it's been a very long, tiring day. No progress was made as far as waking up goes. He will still move a limb occasionally, but not following commands. The CT was done this afternoon and Dr. Patel finally called a little while ago. It does not show any signs of something happening in the past week, which tells them that he did not have a stroke or anything during or after the surgeries. They are still thinking now that it is due to the sedatives and paralytics that were given for the past week. But, the scan showed some changes in his brain from the scan that was done in December. We will get more information on that tomorrow. Dr. Patel is more certain now that it will just take some time.

We haven't been as satisfied with his care today as we have been. His nurse was very rough at times and too mild at others. She also didn't like us being in his room and talking to him. He's not supposed to be left alone yet after we went to lunch she was not in the room when we came back and we didn't see her for another 45 minutes. He also was only shifted and not totally turned as he had been before. Hopefully we will get his nurse from yesterday. We really liked her and I know she's working tomorrow. His nurses tonight are 2 men and 1 of them was his nurse the night of the transplant.

As far as the heart goes, it is working fine. One of the support drugs has been stopped and the 2nd one cut in half and may be stopped tommow. He was taken off the nitric oxide some today, but his cardiac output dropped some so it was added back before we left the hospital. Maybe tomorrow. I think Dr. Patel would like to get him off the vent as soon as possible. He did say we have another week before we would have to move to a trach instead.

We are all exhausted. Emily is leaving tomorrow and I have to find the airport. I have a feeling my friend Faith is working on that too. She's asked me about what time she has to be there so it wouldn't surprise me for her to call and say she was driving her to the airport and not to argue! And we've already decided that we are going to take her up on it.

All for tonight. Emily's packing and then we, or at least I, am going to bed! I'll let you know what we find out tomorrow.