Update

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We celebrated Drew's birthday on Sunday - she seemed to enjoy her party and put on quite a messy show while eating her birthday cupcake. I'll post pictures sometime.

Chris is continuing to improve little by little. He did briefly go into atrial fibrillation on Christmas Day and when he dropped his blood pressure they had to cardiovert him (which means shock his heart back into normal sinus rhythm). Atrial fibrillation is a very common heart arrythmia and could have been caused by electrolyte abnormalities or his pneumonia. They have him on a drug called amiodarone to control the rhythm now. He has had trouble getting his dialysis because his catheter is clotted - they had to skip it yesterday but put some meds in to bust up the clot. They got about 2 of the 3 hours of dialysis done today but had to stop because it clotted again. So, they will likely have to replace it.

That's all the news for now.

Christy