12/26 6:50 pm

 Ethan had his EKG. It was decided that his delirium medication can increase safely. Ethan has been a bit less delirious and more responsive today. He is able to answer some yes/no questions but he is still pointing at the ceiling with conviction that he sees something. He also has gotten to a point that he will see these things but be able to settle himself and not start punching the bed or try to launch himself off the bed.

His nurse asked me to put on Ethan’s YouTube channel and I think I caught him a few times watching it.  His nurse weaned back a little on the sedative likely responsible for causing most of the delirium. I have seen more of Ethan’s eye balls today than I have in the past 2 weeks.

Ethan got one of his double lumen arterial lines removed. This one was in his groin area. Stuff is coming out again!

The thing that is bothering Ethan the most pain wise, is the skin tear on his back. Ouch. It looks so sore I can’t even imagine how sore it must be. Wound management will come to assess it on Monday but apparently wounds don’t happen on weekends.  So until then we are putting as much padding as possible around it.  It is a product of being bed bound for so long.

Today was full of little bright spots all day long. My most favorite was that Ethan saw the car pictures his car buddy PT guy brought. He was pointing at them and when I asked him if he liked the cars, he nodded yes and gave a thumbs up.  Oh yeah. I released his thumb from jail. His thumb is on parole but may return to jail if it misbehaves and starts pulling at cords and wires.