Dad's infection is a step back right now.  The doctors warned us that the recovery of such a traumatic injury will have many set backs.  The cultures testing for bacteria were negative.  They haven't found any sign of csf infection (meningitis.)  This could be because the there is no infection, it is a minor infection or because the antibiotics are treating it appropriately.  Right now they are treating him with strong antibiotics that can hopefully take care of an infection anywhere.  They took a sample of the mucus from the lungs last night.  While the tests were not positive, they did a chest x-ray and their best guess right now is that the infection is pneumonia brewing. The antibiotics should treat any of these infections so that is a good thing. The white blood cell count has improved. 


Dad has continued to need the cooling body wrap to keep his temperature down, but his temperature is normal with it on. He started shivering in the night due to fever/body wrap.  To stop the shivering they gave him Prophopal again and put him on a medicine called Vick (shortened term for a medicine that temporarily paralyzes the patient). This medicine made him slow to respond, but when they took him off for a while he responded just fine.  Because of the medicines the ventilator setting was increased, assisting him more with his breathing.  . 

 We had hoped to get the facial surgery done early this week.  His swelling has gone down enough that the facial surgeon approved it for surgery.  However with the infection, the head doctor of the trauma team has not approved him for the surgery.  So that will have to wait a little longer.

Another CT scan was done this morning just to make sure his lack of response was the meds and not his brain.  They reiterated that the scan looks stable.