Tucker is again sedated a bit because he keeps trying to pull out his breathing tube. The morphine does not seem to do anything, so they are giving him demerol. Tucker is doing well enough to have his - lines taken out. They have also started giving him steroids to reduce the swelling around the breathing tube and it sounds like the current plan is to pull the breathing tube around this afternoon. He is still on morphine to control his pain so he is not kicking and trailing his arms as much as yesterday, so we believe that he is quite comfortable and able to maintain his pain.
Our apologies for not being able to return any of the text messages and calls that we have been receiving for updates. We are not allowed to use our phones on the floor. And we have also been having issues with being kicked off of the hospitals server. Since they do procedures by the bedside in the CICU there are always folks in the room to do "something".
More to come...
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