During the night he had a period where his heart ran too fast and irregularly due to the artificial elevation of his blood pressure. This was not unexpected, but did take some intervention. This morning the doctor came in and pretty much reassured us that he is getting the best treatment available. They did try to insert another sensor (arterioline) to allow them to better and more quickly monitor the way the meds are working. Unfortunately they couldn’t get the probe to go through the arteries because of the constriction caused by the meds…that’s not the way they would say it, but I think that’s stating it somewhat correctly in layman’s terms.

Poor guy-he really didn’t want them to do it, willingly accepted their advice, and then saw it fail to work, leaving him with some more sore spots and more reason to be discouraged. Overall condition seems to be better, body control and language definitely better than a day earlier.