Mom and my nephew Elijah came over for a nice dinner tonight and filled us in on the latest update from the hospital. Pop is still stable, but suffered a temporary setback last night. The Attending Physician in the ICU today said that Pop’s respiratory system had taken another hit last night after the ventilator pressure settings had been reduced to wean him off the machine and prepare for a tracheotomy. He said that Pop’s body had successfully coped with the change for quite a while, but his weakened lungs just couldn’t handle the lower settings yet. He also said that this is not unusual, and that they would start the process of lowering the pressure settings again and was confident that they would eventually get things to be “where they need to be”.

I finished compiling the South Channel water quality testing data from the June 17, 2006 sampling and have posted the numbers on the South Channel website. The results can be viewed by clicking on the ‘2006 Water Quality Data’ link which can be found at Water Quality Sampling.