Hi everyone ;-) Joe has been improving over the last few days. They are lowering the settings on the ventilator and his O2 levels are staying up. He hasn't had any fever now for 4 days. (hip, hip, hoo ray.....) I brought an Ipod in for Joe to listen to the other day and when the music started playing he smiled and did a jig to the music with his head and feet. jejeje It was such a "Joe" thing. (the smile and the jig... jejejeje). The nurse was a bit upset that he was moving so much (not because of the music) but he was just done lying still. They thought he was frustrated but I kept telling them he was just done and he was being him self (constantly on the move) jejejeje His moving hasn't stopped since ;-) Today I came in and he was sitting up in a chair. They kept him upright for about an hour and it made him happy to be able to just be in a different position and it exhausted hhim enough to lay still and actually fall asleep when they put him back in the bed. It was really a good sight to see, but a bit difficult at the same time.

Back to what they are doing for Joe. They have been playing with his meds to see if they can get his pain under control, in hopes that they could possibly get him off the ventilator sooner rather then later. The have him completely off the versed (heavy sedation) and tomorrow they are going to give him an epadoral with heavy duty pain stuff. I don't know why the docs didn't listen to us a week ago when we brought that up, but now that pain mngt ordered it... atleast it is being done.

I will try to keep you guys a bit more updated. If you want more medical termanology etc you will have to ask Tristen or John to do the updates. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. ;-)

Go brotha Joe, Gooooo..... I love my bro. ;-)