The intubation continues

I attended rounds this morning and he has a new neurosurgery team this week and they're fantastic. The big issue at the time was of course, his GI and the ileus. Unfortunately, the ileus didn't improve overnight and so the draining and resting continued.

Despite being under sedation, Tyler was pretty lively this morning. We got a pen in his hand and he wrote "I love you" in my notebook. :heart: And when he had to undergo an uncomfortable lower GI treatment, when the nurses asked how he felt, he gave them double middle fingers 😂

Because I got all Socratic method on the morning rounds, we managed to get a couple of CT scans lined up for the afternoon. Since he would need to be sedated for that, I went home. Hung out with the kids, hung out with Heather while she cleaned the fridge, and took Althea to a doctor's appointment. I gotta say, taking both kids on a fairly mundane errand was strange for all of us. It's been 10 days, but we're still experiencing the shock of Tyler's accident. But I reassured Althea, who in turn, reassured Arthur, that it is okay to not be okay right now.

Tyler's CT results came in later in the afternoon and they were . . . frustrating. He has possible pneumonia and they put him on antibiotics. So now, his lungs have superseded his GI as the problem and I wish we could go back to worrying only about his spinal cord injury.

I wish I had better news, but I'm happy I don't have worse news. This is what recovery looks like for SCI patients – it has ups and it has downs. Keep up the well-wishes and shout-outs. I read them to him every day.