Britney had a rough day but is doing much better tonight. She had a lot of different arrhythmias today and had to have lots of medication to help her come back into a normal rhythm. She had cardioversion pads on for a lot of the day because her heart rate was fast but never needed to have her heart shocked. Her teeth are very sore. A dentist came yesterday and looked at them. He said she would have to have her three front top teeth pulled. He didn't do it and left on vacation today so the team is trying to find someone to pull them. When we put a movie on for her this afternoon she picked her head off the pillow to look at the TV and stared at the screen for about 1 minute. She was also very awake tonight and looking all around. She looked at me for quite a while but didn't seem to be able to understand me. She is still having fevers also and is being treated for a urinary yeast infection. She had another broncoscope of her left lung today also which got out a lot of mucus. No bacteria has grown from the other two other times they took samples the past two weeks. Tomorrow will be a big day also. They are considering having her go to interventional radiology to drain a fluid collection behind her right kidney to see if it is the source of her fevers. They are also planning on taking her off all of her sedation tomorrow to see how much she wakes up. The last EEG last week showed that she was still in a metabolic coma. That means it could be from infection or her kidneys not working well, or other things. There are many reasons she has to not be fully awake yet. We are still hoping and trying to be patient. Have a good night.
John