Saturday

One of these days I will get to say dad is going home, but not today.

They only re-did the culture of his blood. At day #2 it was still showing negative which is a good sign. They will wait a full 5 days to declare it negative for sure though. Dad is able to go home when he's ready since it was negative so far on Friday, he just has to say the word. The word from him yesterday was "no", he's just not ready. He has felt a little worse each day the last few days. He's very weak and tired. They believe this is due to another step down in his steroids. He was on such a high dose for so long that as he comes off of them his body has to readjust each time. They started him on a vitamin packed IV for 3 days to try to give his system a little boost. His sugar is doing so much better and today was actually too low. As they decrease the steroids his sugar should stay down and hopefully he can be without insulin on a daily basis. He will finish one of his antibiotics next week and they will replace it with one he will stay on indefinitely. Things are coming together for him to be able to go home. We are hoping maybe by Sunday he'll be ready!

Thank you for your continued prayers!
Enjoy this beautiful spring day.