Update Tuesday mid-day - not doing well

Dad's taken a turn for the worse. The staff has had a "rough time" keeping him going. His stats dropped very, very low, recovering his O2 stats took forever, his blood pressure dropped very low (60 systolic). They used two (reduced to one now) pressors (sp?) to elevate his blood pressure.

It is likely that he has systemic adema. He has pneumonia as well. They brought out hte "crash cart" as they weren't sure he was going to make it.

The MRI has not shown any more brain injury than the CT scans showed already but it did discover a c-spine injury (in the cervical vertebrae). He has adema around his spinal cord.

He has not been moving. Using the Glassgow Coma Scale (where 15 is lively and active and 3 is the worst), my dad is at a 3. He has not been responding to pain stimulus. His eye are very sluggish in responding to light.

They have him on paralytics to paralyze him to promote proper ventilation and total relaxation.

I am flying out tonight at 7p.