Our Fighter Boy

post cardiac arrest day #12

Izhar still has a lot of secretions. Thick and yellowish, indicating that he has a lung infection. Thus far he is being proned (placed on tummy) on a 6hrly basis. And it does help with getting the nasty secretion out.

His toes are still not looking that great. The right foot is still pretty swollen and reddish. Last night i noticed that he has a little cut on the fourth toe from the nail on his last toe. i’m just hoping that it doesn’t get infected. His ongoing fungal and bacteria infection cultures has thus far came back negative (2x!!), so i hope that he won’t be hit with another one. His system has been pumped with too much antibiotics… *shudder*

He still is not awake yet, even though morphine is running only at 0.4ml/hr. Its most likely due to the post trauma and he’s still gonna take time to wake up. On off he’ll open his eyes but he doesn’t seem to be focusing. The eye specialist is gonna come by tomorrow to see him.

on the brighter side, he has started coughing. of course the eye opening is an on/off event but he does do that. the hands move slightly at times, though we are still trying to see if it is a spontaneous reaction or he is really moving it at will. Apart frm that the ventilator settings are getting tailed down. Insha’allah he’ll prove that his lungs are still strong.

now. the one thing that has us all scratching our heads is this. given the fact that he had the cardic arrest… his heart is as of now, stable.

the miracle of God’s work.

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