Dear friends,
Lydia had to get CPR tonight when her oxygen saturation and heart rate and blood pressure dropped abruptly. Within a few minutes she was back to the status quo and her labs showed no evidence of injury. Before that she had been doing well 95% of the day, improving gradually over the course of the day. All her initial bacterial cultures came back clean. Also they got some fluid from deep in her lungs (via bronchoscopy) and the initial stain from that showed no white cells or bacteria. So it still looks like a severe case of adenovirus infection of the lungs. That is supposed to be at its worst 5-ish days into the infection, and that's about where we are now. Now it is just waiting and watching a machine breathe for a sleeping Lydia while her body kills off the virus.
Thank you for all of your heartfelt expressions of kindness, for rides and dinner, and for other very thoughtful gifts. Two of my church friends were here to visit right after the code and gave me a blessing which was inspired and very comforting. Winona has been wonderful. Thanks to speakerphones, all of Lydia's siblings were able to join me and Winona in a family prayer for Lydia. The professionalism and kindness of the doctors and staff here at SLCH impresses me, and inspires me to want to do better in caring for my own patients.
Kevin Black
P.S. Most of you know Lydia, but if you haven't heard the story of how and why we decided to have her, it's on my mormon.org profile page (go to http://mormon.org/me/1MC5-eng/ and scroll down to "Personal Stories").
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