Monday Update (9/26/16)

Today's echo showed Job now has a blood clot in his atrium. He's on a full therapeutic dose of heparin, a blood thinner. The clot could move but he's somewhat stable right now on heparin. There have been and will be many more conversations between cardiologists and interventionists and surgeons and hematologists but I don't think anything will happen tonight.



Tomorrow's echo will tell us a lot about what our next steps will be. If the clot moves or grows that likely means another open heart surgery to remove the clot.

Job has made (very slow) progress this week. It feels difficult to do, but we want to be excited for him and acknowledge this. Last Monday evening we were very worried about him. Things needed to change and they did change. He has gone down on many meds and some of his respiratory support. His sedation balance is better. His heart function has improved a bit. His sats are better.

But now we have a brand new set of scary, dangerous problems.