12/19 4:25 pm

Ethan has had a quiet day. A nice day of rest.  The ophthalmologist came by and said his eyes were slightly improved. We keep medicating, lubing and taping them while he is sedated and paralyzed. They still look red but not quite as inflamed and angry as before.

Neuro came by and still thinks there was some sort of event that occurred on the other side of Ethan’s brain that affected his right side. All of his reflexes check out good except his blink reflex. He has no blink in the right eye, but again, he is sedated and paralyzed. Nothing showed up yesterday on the CT scan but they want to be thorough and send him for an MRI when he is a little less critical. 

Either way, if he has damage or not, we will deal with it and support him they best way we can. There were no evident occurrences on the CT scan so I consider that a win.

Ethan’s X-ray also showed more opacities in his lungs so they are going to add an additional antibiotic to make sure nothing is growing in there.  Plus they turned up the diuretics to flush him out and try to get some of the fluid around his heart and lungs, out of his body.

They did say that they wanted his lungs a better shape before moving forward.

Ethan got his spa treatment today. It was provided for free, from Mom’s Spa.  I just made that name up. I am so creative. I trimmed and filed his fingernails and toe nails. I filed his callouses and pushed back all his cuticles. He then got a therapeutic lotion application because his skin is so ashy and dry. He looks like a million bucks (maybe just Monopoly money though).

His facial hair is getting long. He is going to wake up with a beard.

We finally got the cath lab results and there has been no rejection so far!! YEAH! Great news! Keep it up Ethan.