Good Night 4 Brent

Good morning! Brent had a good night last night. The switched his heparin drip to heparin shots every 8 hours. They also are giving him his cardizem (heart medication) every 6 hours and that has brought his heart rate down to no higher than 120's-which is good. They were in to do an echo of his heart and we won't get those results for another two hours. There has also not been a dr in yet. So I will try and keep you all posted as we hear more.

We were blessed to have Mark & Lisa Schmidgall come visit us again yesterday before they headed home and also to have Jeff & Lisa Banwart in the evening. We truly appreciated their company! Thanks to all of you for coming by and visiting!

Trudy

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  1. AnonymousJune 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    I'm glad to hear that you had a good night Brent! Welp just sitting here at work... our computer system is down...RATS! :) Hope you have good day today and another good night ahead.
    Love and Prayers
    Miranda

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