November 25, 2010: Another long restless night. I am not sure what it is about nighttime. When I left his room at about 11:00 last night he had been on 10 mcg/kg/min of Propofol for over 7 hours with only one small episode of activity calmed with touching and talking to him. By this morning he was back on six times the Propofol with a chest restraint.
When I walked into the room he was still fairly active. Like any of us, he wants to remove tubes from all the places they are not meant to be. All it takes is being able to show is he can protect his airway by following basic instructions. Still no hand squeezing, no eye opening, no toe wiggling. Lots of coughing, straining to get free of the restraints and remove the tubes.
On the plus side, his fever is still slowly getting lower. His right lung is sounding better and the suctioning of his lungs remains quite productive. Each small step gets us just that much closer to getting Brandon back.
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