Did you read my mind QSL?? Or did I mention somewhere that I was coming home on the 15th? I left Norfolk this morning and Rie picked me up in New Orleans this afternoon and I am HOME!!

I hated leaving..... Let me get to a update. Eddie has been really out of it and we thought he was being kept sedated. I told Regina day before yesterday that I wanted us to talk to a doctor before I left... I did not like what I was seeing, he seemed out of it all the time, weak, getting thinner and thinner and non responsive and all the nurses would tell us is that he was doing "Great!"... I could clearly see he was not "Great!"...

He had been having difficulties breathing after they took the breathing tube out and they put in a trake and at first, he was coughing up a enormous amount of gunk... then he stopped coughing and you could hear it choaking him and him fighting to breathe. So, they hooked the resperator up to the trake and I was not comfortable leaving without knowing what was going on. why is all this mucus there, what are they doing for it and why he is still so out of it...

His lungs were damaged in the fire and that is the reason for all the mucus. They put him on a scheduled cleaning out of his airways to keep that clear and since they started doing that, he is breathing so much easier and he is breathing ahead of the resperator so they were going to try to wean him back off of it again...

As for the sedation.. He has not had any... The reason he has been so out of it and unresponsive is his kidneys. The pain medicines he is on has side effects... There are only 2 pain meds for his amount of pain.. One the liver can't handle, the other the kidneys can't (long term).. He is putting out the right amount of urine, but the things in it at off. They have had to make some adjustments to his feedings and one of the things is in the amount of calories he is getting, they had to cut that back and give him a new mix of more of this and less of that. The build up of this stuff in his body effects the brain and that is why he has been so out of it and unresponsive.

He has been on this new mix for 24 hours now and this morning about 6am we went to see him before I went to the airport and there was a remarkable improvement in how he was. (Darn, Now I REALLY didn't want to leave!!!) His eyes followed us around the room and he even tried to wrinkle up his forehead when I told him I was leaving.

He is schedules for surgery tomorrow. They want to go take a look at the rest of him and get one whole side of him ready for his skin replacement Monday.

The doctor assured me that they are monitoring everything hourly and any adjustments needed in his care is adjusted accordingly.

I feel better after talking to his doctor and seeing how he looked this morning or I wouldn't have left and come home. Even with the assurances I got, it was so very hard to leave. Regina's Mom in Atlanta is coming up Sunday so she will not be left alone for long.

OH!! I have GOT to tell you all!! Since I was leaving, Eddies boss set up a meeting with they guys that have been named "Eddies Angels"!! I got to meet, thank, and hug each and every one of the guys that were there and acted so quicky to save Eddies life that day!! You want to know what is so great about them all? They are just ordinary "Joe's".. Just working men like Eddie, your husbands, sons or fathers.. When the meeting was about to wrap up, I announced that I had one rather large request... I wanted to hug EACH and EVERY one of them!! One guy immediately told me "There was no way I was letting you out of here without hugging you rather you wanted it or not!". Regina and their oldest daughter got hugs from them all too and they got hugs from them. (I think Jesse passed on the hugs and just shook hands)

We still need prayers for Eddie, he has a long difficult road ahead and prayers for Eddies Angels too. Some of them are still having a difficult time dealing with what life threw in their path that day. I will tell you what they said in another post in the general section once I have settled in here at home.