Thank You for all the prayers and fasting. There has been improvement! Dad continues to look better everyday. Right now he's walking the halls with Darin and he's been awake and alert all morning.
Dad's blood pressures are "adequately controlled." His last BP was 157/77. His hematocrit level was 29 (should be around 38) and the nephrologist said he's a bit anemic.
It seems they are not going to do the CT scan with dye since the nephrologist thinks that would push his kidneys into further damage and possibly into needing hemodialysis. Dad's aortic tear is 4 cm and surgical intervention isn't required unless it's 5cm. With dad's controlled BP the hope is that the tear will be able to start to heal. The tear is not close to his heart and not near his kidneys. It's in between the two and the neurovascular surgeon told dad to buy a lottery ticket because he's a very lucky man.
His kidneys have shown improvement today. Yesterday his creatinine level was 3.4 and today it went down to 3.3 which is good (normal range is .5 - 1.5).
They are now discussing plans to send dad home this week. We'll continue to keep everyone updated. I again asked dad if he had anything he wanted to say to his family and he said "You ain't seen nothing yet."
Thank you again for all your fasting and prayers.
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