Sunday, October 14, 2007

9:13pm (DC time)

We just got back from visiting with David. They did take out his ICP bolt sensor thingy that measures his brain pressure. They had it wrapped up in white tape so it looked like a unicorn horn on his head. We're glad its gone! It barely even left a mark! They also took out one chest tube and x-rayed his chest to see how the lungs were doing. They don't want a gap between the lungs and chest wall, so the x-ray will show if the lungs are doing good without one of the tubes before they take out the second one. We haven't heard the results of the x-ray yet. David's pupils responded to the light when they ran those tests today! This is very important. The nurse said he has seen patients whose pupils stay huge with the light and that is not good at all! He was pretty heavily sedated tonight so we didn't see too much movement. I scratched his shoulders, arms and chest (you all know what a baby he is with needing his back scratched!) and he moved his right shoulder! He is peeling from his sunburn he got at the beach before the accident!!!! He is missing out on peeling off the big chunks of skin, so I tried to help him and then tell them about how big I can get them!!! Someday he will find this funny! I got to snuggle up with his arm and we give him lots of kisses for you all. When we were ready to leave and saying goodbye he squeezed my hand. Not immediately after telling him bye and he squeezed really slowly. I am not sure that it means he understood, but we like to think he does! We had to all pull each other away from him to come back to the hotel so that we can wake up early and get to the hospital in time to see him as soon as they take him off the sedatives. That was the best time of our day today and we see the most movement. We will also get to speak to the drs. doing their rounds and get the results from the MRI he will be getting sometime between 3am and 5:30am tomorrow. Thanks again for your amazing support and prayers. We truly, truly, truly love to hear your encouraging comments, scriptures, etc. It is by His strength alone that we are functioning as well as we are and managing to get through our days. Your prayers are felt here in DC!
Love you all, Christa, Laura, Steve, Patty and Kelli