Bad Things

As promised here is a more detailed update.

Last night TJ was doing well, breathing well, and getting some sleep up until about midnight. Then he woke up and was highly uncomfortable the rest of the night. By this morning, he was having trouble breathing again. (Edit: He also started running a fever last night that is still continuing.)

His vitals have remained good, blood gases, blood pressure, heart rate, O2 saturation, etc. However, an hour ago he was intubated and put into a shallow coma (shallow enough that we are not allowed to touch him or talk to him because he might wake up.)

The doctors decided to intubate him for two reasons, (1) To allow for a bronchoscopy, and (2) to allow him to rest his lungs.

The infectious control doctor is confident that the pneumonia is being caused by a fungus that he hypothesizes TJ contracted while cutting rotten wood at our land in WI (the yurt). Apparently, catching fungal diseases is fairly common from rotten Wisconsin wood, seriously.

A bronchoscopy will be performed in one hour (13:00 CST, half the reason they put him in a coma). The samples the doctors get will be put under a microscope to see if a fungus can be seen. If it can't, the sample will be cultured, but it will take 3-5 days to know anything from the culture.

TJ may be treated for a fungal disease whether or not they positively find anything. If it is a fungal disease it is very treatable. If not, and if they cannot figure out the cause, TJ is very likely looking at going home.

So, please, pray that the doctors figure out what is behind this.