December 5, 2020

I just got off the phone with Dan’s nurse. About an hour and a half ago they took Dan off the paralytic and they are hoping to keep him off of it. He’s still heavily sedated so he’s not feeling pain. Nor can he respond to any commands like “squeeze my hand” at this point. It usually takes about an hour and a half for it to leave his system so it should be pretty much out of him. I asked about which “H” influenza he had and the nurse spelled out the name. It is called Haemophilus Influenza. We have a scheduled time to talk on an I-Pad at 2:00. Even though he can’t respond hopefully he may hear our voices on a subconscious level so he knows how much we love him and how many people are praying for his recovery. We were guided to make only one call to the nurses daily so that will be at 10:30am each morning. The nurses will call if anything changes throughout the day. The next three days are important because they will tell us which way he is trending, which will determine what options are open to us.