Mark will probably be hooked up to the EEG monitor for a total of three days (just a guestimate from his nurse). They didn't leave a tube in the spine when they finished the spinal tap because his pressures were fine. His blood was thin so they gave him some plasma. His oxygen is now set to 70% (his highest previous setting was 40%) and his sodium and "stuff" were out of kilter so they're also monitoring that. I wonder if he was just sent to rehab too quickly.
Hopefully Dick will talk to the resident again tomorrow morning to see if they have any idea why he’s so unresponsive. His nurse assured me that the Ativan they gave him last night for his seizures would have made him very sleepy, but that it would have worn off in 2-3 hours. She was pretty adamant that even though there has been no evidence of seizures, she thinks he had had them. I've heard that it is rare for him to have seizures from his original bleed because of the location, but who knows what they did while they were in there breaking up the scar tissue.
Even though he's not waking up at all right now, he’s been here before and has made great strides very quickly so I’m staying positive.
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Hi Christine, Mark and Dick,
Just to let you know we're thinking of y'all here in Holland also.
Below something that may take your mind of things a little. It is almost written in Mark's style and it is certainly the kind of story Mark would love to hear and tell.
Two Duck Hunters
ABSOLUTELY A TRUE STORY
HEARD ON A MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.
A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00).
He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin. It's mid-winter; and of course all of the lakes are frozen.
These two guys go out on the ice with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR.
They decide they want to make a natural looking open water area for the ducks to focus on, something for the decoys to float on. Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce. So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse.
Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast,along with the Navigator), decide on the following course of action: they light the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, they> throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible.
Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG...???
Let's talk about the dog.
A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING; especially things thrown by the owner.
You guessed it: the dog takes off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice. The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling , scream and holler at the dog to stop. The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming.
One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, then continues on.
Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified. Thinking these two geniuses have gone insane, the dog takes off to find cover, UNDER the brand new Navigator.
The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dog's rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master. Then "> BOOOOOOOOOOOOM "" "" ! ! ! ! The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with "I can't believe this just happened" looks on their faces.
The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments.
The dog is okay...doing fine.
And you thought Rednecks lived in the South!
Don Morris @ GSK, Get well soon.
Eh, sorry Rob - that Lincoln story is an updated version of an old urban legend.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp
Snopes.com is your friend. :)
-- Ben
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