Another good night

Hello all,

We had another good day and night yesterday. Eric made some more small improvements. Melissa was able to communicate with Eric as well during the day. Such a great feeling.

We did have a disheartening discussion with the hematologist in the evening. The hematologist told us that he wants to change Eric's cancer treatments away from the normal path due to how sick Eric is. Normally leukemia petitions would get ATRA (vitamin A derivative) daily and then a second chemo treatment. The hematologist said due to Eric's current condition he wants to stop the ATRA for a little bit to give Eric's body a break, and he doesn't want to do the 2nd chemo treatment. This was and still is very upsetting to us. He is slowly making progress daily and that conversation felt like his primary doctor is giving up. We'll see what the hematologist says today.

On a positive note, we were able to reduce the vent settings more last night. Reduced the respiratory rate from 35 to 32 and the PC over PEEP 4o to 34. Another small step in the right direction.

Hoping today brings more small improvements and hopefully a different perspective from the hematologist.

Love,
Sara