Wednesday night Update

For all of you who do not know me, I am Ryan Lewis. I will be getting on in the evenings to try to provide a few more details from the hospital as they happen. So far today has not been as encouraging as we once hoped. Brandon has had some complications. Generally nurses try to turn their patients every couple of hours to change their body positions to prevent fluid building up in the lungs. They tried to turn him last night, but Brandon did not react well to it. Therefore, they layed him back down on his back, which he seemed to like.

The nurses checked him about 8 am and heard some "gunk" or (fluid) in his lungs. They then went ahead and "suctioned" the fluid out of his lungs. This can be a little irratating, and Brandon's ICP ( Internal Cranial Pressure) had increased due to some of these activities. The hospital then decided they had used as much medicine to control the pressure, and blood pressure at safe levels as they could.

This afternoon, we were informed that they wanted to do a preventative measure to help Brandon's recovery. A small tube was placed in the his head to drain excess fluid and relieve the pressure. There were no complications in this procedure and seems to be working. The pressure has come back down to safer levels and we hope it will continue to do so.