Dad 3

October 10 at 11:28pm
I'll start with Steve Tinkler's update from earlier today that he posted on Facebook: "I was in hospital Sat, 10:00 - 12:00 and grateful Dave's vital signs are improviing. His heart is stable, and kidneys have begun producing a little bit of urine this morning. His ICU nurses are THE BEST. It's been over 48 hours and his main doctor said they would know much better if he responded to his current treatment by then. Things are slowly improving today. His nurse Dawn said it would be several weeks before Dave recovers completely. Many Church members have called our home phone for updates. So everyone continue to pray for Dave."

We do love his ICU nurses--they are ghetto-fantabulous!! :) Anyway, sometime around 11:15 am Dad was temporarily off the dialysis machine so they could switch him over to a bigger, better, new & improved hospital bed, and he made 100 ml of urine all on his own!! Yay!! You know what that means? His kidneys are functioning! Granted, it's at a very limited level, but they ARE WORKING! We didn't expect that until after everything else got better!! Also, Dad had his eyes open for 3 full consecutive seconds today while the day nurse was in--even raised his hand for her!! So we have plenty to be thankful for today. I talked to Laura on and off during the day, and just got back from a quick look-see of Dad at the hospital. His heartrate is still high, blood pressure is still low--apparently, during the day they are able to reduce the blood pressure medicine he's on, but at night it always has to go back up--and his blood oxygen level is still hovering in the low nineties--he's still on 100% oxygen. Aunt Willa & Carl just got in--Tim took them to the hospital to see Dad right away. Laura is staying overnight there tonight. . . There's really nothing more to say, except that it's great that, instead of our just knowing he will be OK and watching him get worse, he's getting better!! It's helped us be cheerful much more easily! More later!!