Monday Evening - October 22 Update

Wanted to post a quick update to everyone. Shug's fever returned this afternoon and got as high as 102.5, but has since dropped to the 101 range. . . they feel it is due to the pneumonia, but have taken more blood cultures just in case there is some other bacteria growing that they may need to treat. He is still in ICU - still on the blood pressure meds via IV, so we still can't move him onto the neuro floor yet, they had to double his iv dose to get the BP down because it had gotten up to 170 early this morning. . . but by this evening he was alert and talking and he seemed to understand that he has had a stroke. Still no movement on the left side at all, but he did have a physical therapy session in the morning that wore him out so much that he slept most of the day. Keep praying for his blood pressure to stabilize so we can get him off the ICU and also for his fever to subside. Thanks for checking and we will post with you all tomorrow - oh, I am sure you can't imagine this but dad said tonight that "this place is so boring." Our Shug, he is starving for some real action!