Over last night, I guess Randy continued to run fever and had a lot of storming episodes. They took an x-ray of his chest to make sure his lungs weren't contributing to the fever and the x-ray came out clear, so his lungs are doing great.
As far as the infection goes, they know Randy has an infection, but to narrow it down to find out where all it is and if it is bacteria and if so, what type of bacteria it is, they would have to do the lumbar puncture. The infectious disease doctors wanted that done right away, but Randy's main doctor (the neurologist) said that with Randy's head injury, he felt doing the lumbar puncture was too risky. So their plan of action is to keep Randy on the two different antibiotics. The newest one will cover a broader selection of bacteria. So at this point, they are kind of doing a guessing game and hoping that one of the antibiotics will clear up whatever infection he has. He will be on the antibiotics for at least 2 weeks and while he is on them, he cannot be moved out of the hospital, which means I definitely have more time until I have to worry about them trying to move him into a skilled nursing facility.
The good news is, Randy hasn't ran fever throughout most of the day. I give more credit to all of the prayers going on out there than I do to the medicine at this point. You could tell he was feeling so much better today. Throughout most of the day, he was responsive to people talking to him. The only time he really wasn't was right after they gave him pain medicine. He actually even tried to talk today. I cannot even begin to tell you how great that felt. I know it is a baby step in his recovery process, but it felt so good. The first time happened right after Cass (our daughter) walked in the room this morning. Then, later this evening, when he had a few people talking at him, he started doing a lot more and even got a bit louder. Of course, we can't understand what he is saying, other than we thought we could make out the word "okay", but it was so good to hear him trying. The nurse said when she asked him to open his eyes he shook his head no. It could, of course, been just a non purposeful movement, but we are looking at it as a positive thing.
There is one doctor (the one who performed Randy's EEG) who has been through a head injury himself, though it was the front part of his head and Randy's is in the back. He told us that, no matter what any of the doctor's say, what is going to bring Randy out of this coma is people talking to him making him want to come out of it. He said to talk to him about memories and things that he really likes. So I want to encourage everyone to continue to visit Randy and talk to him about work or airplanes and flying or whatever else you know that means something to him. I know that Randy loves what he does so much ~ it is such a big part of him. He also has a love for flying and was working on getting his pilot's license.
And I just want to thank everyone again and again for all of the support they have provided. It has helped keep me going day after day!
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Hello there!
I just wanted to thank you for putting this together. I'm Randy's first cousin, Adrienne on the Dunn side of the family (Jan's daughter). We were all shattered to hear what has happened. I have always wished that I had know Randy and his brothers (especially Jason and Randy) better and wish that we could have been more like a family. There have been so many things that have made that so difficult or impossible to do. The last time I saw Randy in person, we were all little kids at Christmas. I always remember the picture that we have of us all standing by the Christmas tree---me a toddler and Randy just a baby. I hope that he gets well soon and makes a full recovery. We send nothing but positive energy his way and to you and your beautiful daughter.
All my love,
Adrienne
PS is the address you provided still good to send mail to? Thanks!
Hey, Randy! I am so glad you are starting to wake up! Listen, I want to update you a bit on what's going on here at work. Just lift your finger if you want to take a break from listening, ok? Here goes:
When we last met I was turning over to you the BPI-review-coordination process. Well, never mind - I took that back, and it's going fine.
Thanks to your recommendation, Astrida Carew has spoken with Ellie Bell, and she is filling in on some of that work, as well. And Karen Lee-Sparks (did someone say "Sparkles"?) is also filling in. I know lots of others are, too. It takes LOTS of folks to cover the stuff you did so smoothly, and they are all eager to help wherever possible!
David Shealy has been finalizing comments on the IIMR (pronounced "eye-mer") process - do you remember - BPI-4050? Well, that is going through final routing, as well. It looks like it will get released this month (July!)
Okay - 4th of July is coming up - there will be fireworks everywhere, I suppose. But I'll bet they don't light up the sky nearly as much as your smile - yep, go ahead and smile :)
We all miss you and are looking forward to seeing lots more of those quiet smiles soon!
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