What a Weekend!!

Saturday morning Jon's oxygen level began to go down. The doctor said to raise his oxygen to 70%. When we visited with the doctor he explained to us the severity of Jon's condition and that his lungs were very sick. He told us about A.R.D.S. and that he needs to get rid of whatever is causing the A.R.D.S to act up. We needed to be able to "keep him alive" long enough for his lungs to heal. Jon's numbers looked good for a while. As the day progressed his oxygen sats were going down. They had the oxygen on the ventilator up to 100%. They were trying everything that they could possibly try and nothing was working. Jon's sats got down to 71. They took x-rays, drew ABGs (Arterial Blood Gas), put him on antibiotics, put him on blood pressure medicine...they were doing everything that they could think of to help Jon. The doctor bluntly told us that if Jon continued down this path that they were not going to be able to save him. The doctor was not finding a reason for Jon's decline. Jon's blood pressure was going down; his temperature was going down, and his oxygen sats were going down...We were SO scared. The doctor wanted to move Jon to Baptist but told us that he would not be able to survive the transport so it was better for Jon to remain at Select Specialty Hospital. We knew that if something happened to Jon that it was God's will. It is hard to accept sometmes that God's will may not be your will. We continued to pray continuously. We talked to Jon and told him to keep fighting. A little later in the evening (around 8:30) the doctor came in and actually lowered Jon's PEEP. This is not something that patients usually like or tolerate. Jon responded favorably to this. From this point Jon's oxygen began to rise. Within minutes it was in the 80's, by around 2:30 it was consistently about 90, by 6:00 it was 94 or above, and by last night it was above 97. The doctor told RT to begin weaning him off the oxygen but if his sats got below 95 to go back up. She put him at 90% and he tolerated it well. They were messing with him and it went to 94 for a couple of seconds and she moved it back up to 100%. (She was a little nervous) Jon had a good night Sunday night and his ABGs were good this morning and we were told that they showed that his lungs were functioning better. We will see what the x-ray and doctor have to say. It is only because of God's will that Jon is with us...we don't know his plan for any of us, but we must be willing to accept whatever he has in store for us. It doesn't mean that the human in us is going to "like" it or that our "selfishness" won't sometimes come out, but we can try. We are so thankful for so many things. We are surrounded by so many blessings in this life, we just have to remember that and give thanks appropriately...We are so grateful that God has answered our prayers. We are also thankful to everyone who has stopped to pray for Jon and our family. Everyone's prayers mean more to us than you will probably ever know.