Sunday Morning

Matt had kind of a rough night, but the nurse has told me that head injuries are often 4 steps forward and 2 steps back. His ICP is a little high so they've been giving him more medication and trying to keep him very quiet. His sedation medication is much higher because he was still moving around so much. We can sit with him, but not too much else. The doctor also told me that there are more severe things they could do to lower his ICP if this stops working, but the fact that they haven't had to do any of that yet is a good sign. He's also still responding to commands on his left side and both his eyes are dilating equally. They tell me not to worry about the numbers too much and the fact that he is doing these things is good progress.

The next two days are going to be critical for watching this pressure and then we'll see after that. They are expecting it to be about a week from the injury (so Thursday morning) before we can really find out about actual damage. He'll probably be in the ICU for another week. The nurses are absolutely amazing and are taking the best care of him - they tell me that they can tell he's crazy strong and is doing well for what happened.