There hadn’t been much change in Kevin’s condition overnight. Vitals were good. They have reduced pain meds to morphine (as of late Monday night). Angie and I had a good night’s rest. We got my parents to go and rest away from the hospital as well. We came back up around 6:30 AM and had just missed the doctor. The neurosurgeon did not come in until around 11:30 AM.
When he was in, he was checking his stimulus reactions on his feet and hands. There was no reaction on his hands, but when he pinched a toe on Kevin’s left foot, the foot jerked away. The doctor said that was a good reaction. However, he followed it up with the notion that even someone who has a severed spinal cord injury can do that reaction. We find the good news in the fact that Kevin’s foot has not reacted this way so far.
Then he proceeded to check Kevin’s eyes. With light there was still no pupil dilation/reaction. So then he pulled open Kevin’s eyes, and poked his eyeball with a wad of Kleenex. Out of six pokes, Kevin’s eyelids on his left eye tried to close (blinked as a reaction to pain)! I know it is only one out of six, and I know that he may be somewhat involuntary to pain, but it hasn’t happened so far. And once out of six times, is better than none out of six!!!!
Then there was the statement where the neurosurgeon said, that I actually found encouraging. He said, Kevin does not have a dead brain, he has a badly injured brain.
We go through different stages of grief, excitement, laughter, joy, sadness, etc…. Thanks for your prayers, words of encouragement, food, offers of assistance, etc…
God is sustaining our family.
Praying,
Matt & Angie
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