Day 2 - December 23, 2012

Dad underwent the hypothermic therapy all day today.  His 24 hours at 33 degrees Celsius was completed at 10:30pm and the nurses began warming him.  He was fully asleep in a medically induced coma throughout the treatment.  His heart was more stable throughout the day as a result of the medications, and only occasionally did he have irregular beats on the monitor.

Uncle Tim, Aunt Deb and their family had left on Friday night to spend the Christmas holiday in Massachusetts.  They arrived there at about 7am on Saturday morning (12/22/2012) and only hours afterwards received the call that Dad had collapsed and was being taken to the hospital.  That evening, my Uncle Tim, Aunt Deb, Uncle Dave, and Aunt Judy booked flights back to Michigan, taking off this morning and arriving at the hospital at about 1:00pm.  Poor Whit, Kyle and Codi drove back to Michigan, making their total drive time 26 hours out of the 48 hours of weekend.  Based on conversations with them, we understand they packed a lot of vacation into those 12 hours.

As soon as they arrived at the hospital, the entire family met with the doctors for an update. By entire family, I really mean EVERYONE....Mom, Chantel, Paul, Aubrey, Nate, Tom, Amber, Uncle Tim, Aunt Deb, Aunt Judy, Uncle Dave, Aunt Linda, Uncle Dick, Aunt Denise, Grandma....Everyone. The doctor did a very nice job of summarizing the event as well as the tests and procedures performed up through mid-afternoon today.  However, the real message that we are just going to have to wait and see how he reacts when they reheat him and attempt to wake him tomorrow.