Another Call to the Hospital 5:41 pm - 5-16-2006

We spoke with Rebecca, dad's nurse, and she said earlier today they tried to move him to different positions to see if his oxygen readings would change. They did change enough to where they thought he could benefit form the Roto-Prone bed. Since he has been in the prone position they have been able to reduce the ventilator to 80 percent and dad is now maintaining his oxigenation level at 95%. All vitals are good and stable. He is prescibed to be in the prone position for 18/24 hours. They will routinly check his skin and eyes to make sure everything is ok. The next step is to talk with the Doctor in the Am to see what he believes dad's neurocologcal function is.

He could have been at a low oxygen level or had a bad reading. We noticed earlier today when they tried to do the reading from his ear, but with the same machine and a different measurement point on his body, the reading was dropping quickly. We pointed this out to his nurse and she changed the reading back to the finger and the reading again stabilized to a higher level of 65 (still not the best) . We are not doctors, just observers.