Day Six Part Four

4:55 PM WOW!! What an afternoon! The xrays showed that Don's stomach was absolutely full and that the pain meds had stopped is bowels from working. The Finigrin (sp?) caused such a reaction that Don was disoriented, hallucinating, argumentative and combative. That lasted until 3:30 with trying to get xrays and a stomach tube up his nose and down his throat. One and a half hours later the finally got the tube in and at this point have relieved almost 3 liters from Don's stomach. They have removed the PCA pump with the delaudid and hope that the bowels will start working again - soon. They will do xrays again tonight to see if there is truly a blockage or if it was the medicine. He has been taken off the oxygen mask and 10 liters of oxygen and back to the nasal tubes and 6 liters of oxygen. (They just came into do xrays I am out of the room again.) Don will be unable to eat until the stomach tube comes out or surgery which ever comes first. We have consented to all three surgeries just in case they are able to do more than one. I know I say keep praying but that's the only thing I know to do at this point. I know we are very blessed but we still have a long way to go and need all the pray we can get. Thanks to everyone that is leaving comments on the blog. We know that there is a lot of people praying. But it is nice to see it in writing too!

Day Six Part Three

2:15 PM

They are taking xrays now. The trauma doctors came in and said that the pains meds are working against him right now. They have stopped his colon from working. They are in the process of changing pain meds and have given suppositories to help. He is still very confused and argumenative. Don has been nothing but humble since he arrived. This is a big change. I will post more later tonight. Keep praying!!

Day Six Part Two

Tuesday Dec. 9th 1:50 PM
We have just spent the last hour trying to get Don calmed down. Evidentally the medicine has caused him to be combative and confused. He is still hallucinating and he thinks he is at school and he is trying to work and can't get anything done. They have placed him on an oxygen mask and he is now on 10 liters of oxygen. They are going to do stomach x-rays to see if he has a blockage. Keep praying!!

Day Six

Tuesday, December 9th 11:45 AM

Don rested well last night. His mother said that he had the hiccups a lot last night. One episode lasted almost an hour. Don is still on 4 liters of oxygen. His mother noticed last night when he would breath really deep through his nose it seemed to shorten the hiccup episodes. It is so hard for him to breath deep because of the broken ribs, but yet the hiccups seem to be linked to not breathing deep too. Doris said that Don mentioned he was hungry and when breakfast came around he ate 1/4 piece of french toast. Not sure if the amount is more than he has been eating but it is more solid. He is very nauseous again today. He is so nauseated today that he says he won't eat anymore until the hip/leg is fixed. Which by the way, we hope will be tomorrow. Unless an emergency comes in between now and 4 AM tomorrow, he will be having surgery on his hip/leg at 7:00 AM. They talked to Don and had him to agree to all three surgeries at one time just in case everything goes better than expected and they would be able to get as much done at one time as possible. It is now almost 12:30 and when they brought lunch he told me to get the food out of his room. He has finally vomited and said that he felt better. The nurse came in a gave him Finigrin (?sp/) for nausea and said that it was stronger than what he had been taking. He is hallucinating a lot now. Taking about people he worked with years ago and that I need to get some rocking chairs for some folks that ordered them. (Don builds porch furniture as a hobby). He told me to throw him the flashlight and I told him I had. He said no I don't have it. So I gave him my hand and said OK. He then told me to put my hands around his mouth so he could tell me something, but he never did. The nurses are trying to clean him up since he vomited. Everyone please pray that he will not be bumped out of surgery in the morning. I think in his mind he will be more relaxed once that has been done. Please just keep praying. 12:44 PM

PS I think the kids added a picture of the motorcycle after the accident to the first blog entry. I didn't want it to be on there more than that. Thanks for all your prayers!!!