{"id":169,"date":"2011-05-31T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/?p=169"},"modified":"2011-05-31T20:36:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T03:36:01","slug":"update-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/2011\/05\/update-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Update #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family,<\/p>\n<p>A quick update on Dad:<\/p>\n<p>Dad started to show signs of pneumonia this weekend, with a 102 degree fever starting on Saturday.  He was placed on three antibiotics on Sunday and tests were taken.  The doctors confirmed today that he does have pneumonia and reduced him to a single antibiotic.  He has been fever-free for 24 hours.  While we are a little frustrated by this, the doctors told us early on to expect it.  Burn patients are especially susceptible to infection because of their suppressed immune systems. <\/p>\n<p>Dad also experienced atrial flutter (AFL) after his dressing change on Sunday morning (the first full dressing change since his surgery on Thursday).  AFL is slightly worse than atrial fibrillation.   The doctors used low energy shocks (cardioversion) to stop the AFL, and then placed him on a drip-type medication to help ensure his stability.  He experienced AFL again on Sunday night when the medication was reduced to a smaller volume, but doctors increased the amount as soon as this happened.  His heart has been well since 2am Monday morning.  <\/p>\n<p>Doctors placed dad back on the ventilator full-time, but expect to start taking him off once the pneumonia has passed. <\/p>\n<p>Please keep dad in your thoughts.  He is putting up an amazing fight \u2013 we\u2019re proud of you, dad!!    <\/p>\n<p>Colin and Ian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family, A quick update on Dad: Dad started to show signs of pneumonia this weekend, with a 102 degree fever starting on Saturday. He was placed on three antibiotics on Sunday and tests were taken. The doctors confirmed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/2011\/05\/update-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macdiarmid.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}