2/14 Monday Early Evening

James is maintaining. They are preparing to replace a multi-port IV connection and relocate it. The existing port was found to have infection growing on/in it. Hopefully, that will help them with the irradiation of the infection in his blood.

We got some additional information this afternoon that I view as positive. When they replaced the blood tube connections and the ECMO machine, early this morning, they have used their own preferred connections and tubes for the replacement. The previous were put in while he was at Riverside Hospital. OSU Medical Center has much more experience with the ECMO treatment, and feel the equipment could operate better with their connections/configuration.

Further, tonight James has one of my two favorite nurses. Her name is Laurie and she is extremely knowledgeable and provides you with thorough information. She is also very experienced in these cases, and can be positively assertive with the doctors when she shares other things that have worked in similar cases she has worked.

As I am sure you can tell by my post... we are looking for anything positive, no matter how small. James is critically ill and as we have seen during this illness, things can change quickly. Regretfully, on the overall perspective, he has not improved materially.

With my brother maintaining currently, my sister and I are going to travel back to Marietta for a nights rest.

Keep the well wishes, good thoughts and prayers coming.