Critical Care

We just spoke to the Critical Care Specialist. He scares me.

He is still very, very sick. He is far from out of the woods.

The pancreatitis is still raging, his bone marrow isn't making blood so whenever they take blood out they have to replace it with another unit, he has the blood infection, the VRE bacteria, and on and on and on.....

On the positive note, his kidneys are working, his heart is maintaining itself and he is, as of an hour ago, initiating each breath on his own.

Keep working Parker, you've got a long way to go!

We asked him what positive steps we should be looking for next. He looked at me like I had two heads and I said, As the parents, we have to think positive, we cannot afford to think otherwise, and we just want to know what the next good step will be.

Getting him off the ventilator will be the next step in the right direction.

As my sister-in-law Liz wrote to me, baby steps have a whole new meaning.