Dad was intubated early this morning and put on a ventilator. He is now sedated and his body is relaxing as the ventilator does the job of breathing for him. Today was a pretty busy day for him in the Medical Intensive Care Unit; after getting him stabilized in the morning they performed a couple procedures on his lungs to help clean things out and get some samples of the buildup to analyze. They haven't performed a tissue cultivation as they feel this could be harmful to his already taxed lungs. He had a chest X-ray today that showed the infection has now spread to both of his lungs. The doctors are constantly refining their treatment plan in order to get dad better. He's in good hands out there.
Mom, Natalie and Ronnie are going to be out there tonight. Hopefully the magic touch they had earlier this week will work again. On behalf of our family I want to thank Pastor Mike and Helen for coming out to talk with all of us today. I've never been through anything like this before and both of you were very comforting.
Eddie
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