Friday afternoon: 5pm Utah time:
Tom took care of Mike today and they have turned off the paralytic medicine but kept him heavily sedated today. When the paralytic wore off, he started coughing a lot and brought up some phlegm. They have sent it for culture. They also tested his urine, which was negative (yay). He is doing pretty good, according to Tom. The graft on his forehead looks good. The ones on his cheeks look questionable and so they are very fragile and only time will tell. That's one reason Mike is sedated so heavily. They don't want him moving too much and damaging the grafts. He is on pressure support ventilation. "He's holding his own" status quo....
More later,
and so we go
JaCee