Wednesday in the hospital

Not a lot different today than yesterday, with the exception that Dave's fever had gone up a bit. We couldn't find someone to give us an exact number, but he felt hot and was sweating a bit, and the docs were going to try a new antibiotic. 

I had hoped that Dave might be more animated, but he had pulled out one of his IVs from moving around, and so the hospital staff had responded by putting him back on sedation. We'd asked if there was some way to check Dave's brain activity with an EEG, but since he was on sedation, a side-effect is that there would be little to see on an EEG, so that wouldn't really tell us anything. 

We'd also hoped to have an MRI by now, but that hasn't been done yet. Still, the attending physician told us that an MRI was unlikely to tell us much, and we'd see more about Dave's progress based on his physical improvement: moving, responding to commands, etc., and, because of either his condition or the sedation, we weren't seeing much of that, 

So, this is all to say that the only thing different on Wednesday was that Dave's fever was up, and other than that, no improvement we could detect. 

In addition to Pete, Pam, Yvonne, and Margo, we're also expecting visits from a couple of more sibs--Dan and Steve--on Thursday night. Hopefully, we'll have seen some improvement by then.