Coma inducing med is off and they are slowly reducing the sedation. Still has pnemonia, mrsa infection, but they are suckin out those lungs and he looks like he may be comin around real slow. Hes still wrapped in cold packs for the fever to stay down.
Throughout Saturday Danny stabilized some. His fever came down, then went up, and kept cycling that way. There were cold packs in bed with him since Friday...around his chest, under his arms, at his thighs. I kept thinking how he disliked being cold. The antibiotics seemed to be working though and they turned off the coma-inducing medication, while also slowly reducing his sedation. It was best to rid of these things as quickly as possible I was told because the longer he was forced to remain comatose the lesser were his chances of coming out of it at all.
The infection he had was MRSA, which is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and is a pretty serious issue. It is a common problem in hospitals where there are people with open wounds and invasive devices. Vancomycin is the antibiotic of choice to treat it, and Danny was now on that, along with others. He was being suctioned out very frequently, and the coughing spells it caused were intense. Everyone now had to wear gowns when in the room and follow very scrupulous hand-washing technique...which by the way, should have been followed by everyone since the beginning. Its uncomfortable when you are in the medical profession yourself but now on the other side of the fence and things staff and visitors do or do not do correctly become very noticeable.
