"John's rough day continued into the night. He was very agitated and
could not sleep. He got mad at us quite a bit, which is a positive sign
that he continues to get better. However, I also learned tonight that
often the nights are rough during this period of recovery. Jason isn't
getting much sleep (although he is currently snoring, same as john!) so
it will become important for him to have company at night.
John's
alarms kept going off tonight do to the position of his leg. He
keeps wanting to curl up tightly, but we need his leg straight to get
the lines clear. He fought us on it and was generally very fussy from 12:50AM to 4:49AM
when he fell asleep again out of sheer exhaustion. We have delayed the
next Jiggle Jacket/Respiratory Therapy (RT) to coincide with the X-ray schedule. I am hoping he
will sleep through both of them.
It's now 5:10AM
and he slept through three more alarms and us moving him by lifting the
sheets. So far we haven't found that sweet spot to stop the alarms. Throughout the agitation tonight his blood pressure remained steady which was also a good sign!"
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