Friday, November 20, 2009

Nov. 20 @ 3:00pm

Chris is holding on. The doctors are trying to do all that they can to clear Chris' lungs. The lungs are not progressing as fast as the doctors want them to. Chris is also retaining a lot of fluid in his body so the doctors have upped some of his medications to help him get all of that extra fluid out.

Right now, Chris' main battle is with ARDS. As a systematic result of the ARDS, Chris has an inflammed pancrease. The doctors also think it is because he has not had much food.

He is on the final day of the new H1N1 drug, and they are going to test him for H1N1 again to see if it is still in his body.

All of Chris' other systems are steady and holding. His blood oxygen level is back up from yesterday. The doctors are keeping Chris going so that he can recover from this. Please pray that the doctors can treat the ARDS so that Chris' lungs and the rest of his body can heal.

2 comments:

  1. prayed this morning. We will be off Wednesday through Sunday of this upcoming week and have no big plans. Please let us know what we can do to help. Is there anything in Troy that needs to be taken care of?

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  2. We're praying daily and holding all of you in our hearts!

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