💪🏻12/19 9:15 am

 Last night was smooth. Ethan was stable. Occasionally his blood pressure dropped if he was turned one way or another. I did his stretches this morning and applied the stroke boots and stroke wrist positioner. He has had his daily care routine of having his teeth brushed, face washed etc.

At one point, a horrifically high pitched, steady, painfully loud noise was sounding.  Where the hell is that coming from? He was breathing, so it wasn’t him flat-lining, which is kind of what it sounded like. I looked at all the pumps. The nurse had stepped out of the room. I glanced up at Ethan’s monitor to see if he looked stable, and he did, so I wasn’t overly concerned.

I found it was the EEG machine (brain machine). All of the lines were going haywire. Ut oh! I covered Ethan's ears with pillows and stepped out and found the nurse and told her. Then I waited out of the room.  It was so loud I couldn’t go back in.  The nurse came and looked at it and called the EEG team.

We were going on about 3 minutes of steady loud noise.  Staff members were now gravitating towards the room. Echoes of “what is the noise?” And “Ugh, where is that coming from?” We’re weaving through the hall.

It was now 5 minutes into the deafening noise. Everyone was hating it. I know Ethan had to hate it too. Then the screen went black.  The noise stopped. Oh boy, Ethan gained magical powers during his arrest to control machines with his mind. Wow! 

Actually, about an hour later, the EEG person came up and found that the plug it was plugged into wasn’t working and the machine was working on battery power, and the battery had died. I like my version better with the magical powers, but whatever.

Ethan did have one moment when they were turning him that his blood pressure dropped a fairly significant amount. He is still not out of the woods.  They are watching him VERY closely.

I have decided to really up my game with Ethan’s physical therapy today. I am going to make sure he is nice and limber for when we walk out of this joint together.