Every morning at 6am the night shift ICU nurse calls to give you an update on how the night went. He said it was basically uneventful and there are no new changes. Dad's fever came down to 100 with cooling blankets and Tylenol but never really broke.
The plan for today is to do an EEG this morning to check for any seizure activity, temporarily turn off the Propofol (sedation drip) to see if he's any more lucid and able to better follow commands, and at some point today get an MRI. They said until now they didn't know if he was stable enough to get an MRI, he couldn't tolerate being moved down there and spend an hour in the MRI scanner. But they said they think he'll do ok with it today. I'm hoping that may give us some more answers, or at least rule out some things.
Visiting hours start in 2 hours. So I'll head into the hospital soon.
Also, one of the hotel staff, Barbara, came by to see how he was this morning. Barbara is an amazing person. She's the one who found my dad. She stayed with him until the paramedics took him to the hospital. She's the one who searched for my dad's phone to get my number and call me to tell me what was happening. She even drove over to the hospital and sat in the ER to give me an any updates that they would tell her and kept calling me to tell me what was going on. If it wouldn't have been for Barbara I wouldn't have known anything at all and would have been much more hysterical. So she is awesome. She said that all the hotel staff here really love my Dad, he always stops at the desk to talk to them and brings them Hershey bars from home.
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