Concerns

All of Daniel's tests are looking really good and the doctors are positive. There is nothing conclusive about what caused his heart to arrest. Right now the doctors just want Daniel to wake up, and then we will know more.

For a short time yesterday Daniel was initiating his own breaths and overriding the ventilator. This was after they took him off of all the sedative. He later went back to letting the machine do all of the work. The doctors are planning on weaning him off of the ventilator soon.

The major concern was that when Daniel was off of his sedatives yesterday, not only did he not wake up, but he was not responsive to things like pain. He stayed still and did not fight back or seem uncomfortable with the breathing tube. The nurses have explained that even when someone is sedated their body should react to some of those things.

On Friday they determined that they should give Daniel a very high dose of his anti seizure medication to bring him up to therapeutic levels. This medication sedated him again. He is still taking high doses of this.

Late Friday night, the doctors decided to take Daniel for an MRV. This test is very much like an MRI, but they were focusing specifically on the area of his brain between the two lobes and the blood flow there. The results for this test were good as well. They said that they could not see anything of concern.

Right before they took Daniel for his MRV, the nurses said that he tried to open his eyes a little. They also had to take some of the sticky pads off of his check to do the MRV and he reacted to the pain of the pulled hair when they did that. He was not reacting to pain on his extremities though. Then they had to give him a paralytic to freeze his muscles for the MRV, and that stopped any possible motion again.

They told us that we would need to wait until Saturday Morning to see anything.