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For all the readers (last I checked a little over 3,200) I'm sorry for the late post. I took time to really sleep in. The good news is nothing exciting enough happened that someone had to give me a call and get me up.

TJ's vent has been turned up a bit, the plural effusion only drained 40 cc's or so overnight bringing the total since the last chest tube to 80 cc's. This is about half as much as we need at this point.

He's had two chest x-rays and show possible pneumonia in the upper part of his right lung (practically all of the pneumonia has been in his left lung), which is new development. This is nothing serious at this point, it could turn into it.

A bronc was performed on the right lung in order to get a specimen.

The doctors increased the sedation by a little bit, e.g., they put him in a deeper coma. From what I understand it wasn't much deeper.

His vitals have been good and he had a restful night, the only vital sign that is not really where we want it to be is his sats (O2 blood saturation) which is at an ok level for the ICU, only a little lower than what one would usually want it at.

Finally, his fever went up this morning a little bit, and has fallen back to 100 even.

P.S. You can see this post for asking questions.