Rocky Times

Last night Trey started to breathe over the vent which was a good sign that he wants to do things on his own.  Some of the vent settings were adjusted down but later were turned back up after some poor blood gas readings.  Today the focus was on getting him prepared for more improvements by administering some diuretic therapy, giving him a blood transfusion, and starting to decrease the sedative (Trey will remain on pain killers, but he needs to participate in the ventillator weaning process so they will slowly cut back on his sedatives).  After nearly 36 hours without any major episodes Trey's oxygen saturation levels plummeted this evening requiring the respiratory therapists to manually assist him with his breathing.  They were able to stabalize him relatively easily, but these incidents are scary and unexplained.  Shortly after this episode he had a very good blood gas reading so hopefully we'll see some positive progress going into the late evening and early morning hours.