By Ron Stark — Apr 10, 2012 5:03pm Taylor is still heavily sedated at this time. He is undergoing a procedure to remove spinal fluid for the matter of testing. He is fighting an infection and a high fever that goes along with it. The fluid might hold the…
By Susie Roemhild — Apr 9, 2012 5:24pm Today T had a rough start. He is fighting pneumonia, and this morning they performed a broncoscopy, which removed much of the accumulated fluids. They are using the trach to stimulate a different kind of breathing pattern to strengthen his lungs (…
By Susie Roemhild — Apr 8, 2012 6:29pm Taylor has been resting soundly today. He is not going to be moved on Monday as previously thought. While he has responded to the nurses off of the sedation, long term off sedation is hard. So they are allowing him get the needed…
By Susie Roemhild — Apr 7, 2012 7:15pm Taylor is still breathing mostly on own. They have taken out his chest tubes and his vitals are still stable. Still reacting when the nurses stir him. He will transported on Monday to Phoenix St Joes for more rehabilitation. We will post…
By Lisa Ansay — Apr 6, 2012 9:44pm Today was a good day.They stopped helping him breathe. Yesterday he was on assisted breath where he would initiate the breath, and the ventilator would finish for him. Today, they let him breathe on his own for a few minutes….then hours…and he…
By Ron Stark — Apr 6, 2012 12:59pm Taylors temp has come back down to a normal reading and his blood pressure is good for now. They are slowly dialing back his sedation level to once again see if they can rouse him a bit. Another day of prayers and…
By Ron Stark — Apr 5, 2012 9:37pm Today the doctors reduced T’s sedative level in hopes of him waking a bit. As of right now he has not awoken but the doctors are not surprised by that. He is fighting a fever and higher than average blood pressure all…
By Susie Roemhild — Apr 5, 2012 1:17pm Thank you once again for all your prayers and support. We chose to be vague about specific injuries, but based on the abundance of questions and phones calls, we realize that we need to tell you what is really happening. If you…
By Susie Roemhild — Apr 5, 2012 11:30am We are at the hospital and the doctors are going to try and wake him up a little bit to see how he responds. We will update this as soon as we know more. Thank you for your prayers!
By Susie Roemhild — Apr 4, 2012 1:10pm It was decided by the medical staff to lower some of his meds to see his response. His vital signs were immediately affected by our voices and touch ( good sign) however, He needs more time before his can be awakened. It…
