Saturday, March 17, 2012

hoping for a restful uber healing weekend

Saw the neurologist again before leaving last night. He again mentioned that his brain activity logs were pretty consistent He said there were a couple spikes earlier on that may have been slight seizure activity so he had increased seizure meds a bit to help control. He had mentioned this before, however, this time he also added that the increased dosage can have a sedation effect. This probably explains why he seemed less responsive yesterday. They said they were going to stay at that dosage to help control and seizure activity to allow the body to heal for the next 48 hours. Today things remain pretty much unchanged. His temp is again around 100 and dropped to 99.7 while I was there. After the blood cultures came back, Dr Singh determined there was no presence of infection causing the low grade fever, so antibiotics were stopped...thank goodness, Mark doesn't really need any more things to fight at this point! His vitals are good. He had a slight twitch in his left thigh the neurologist watched throughout the day, but it was suspected to be seizure effects and the meds were upped slightly to help...which they did. He continues to show active salivary glands which results in alot of suction. Pretty sure we saw some slight arm and finger motion yesterday and when Brock and I visited this evening, we think we got a few slight finger squeezes from his left hand. His eyes were slightly open this morning for me, but he definitely looked like he wanted to keep them relaxed this evening.