The news from the hospital is not very encouraging tonight. Pop continues to be unresponsive and the ICU staff is growing increasingly concerned about what may be responsible for keeping him in his foggy state. His fever has subsided, but he had problems with low blood pressure earlier today and had to be infused with norepinephrine to correct the situation. His blood oxygen saturation level has been sporadic, so the doctors increased the PEEP setting on his ventilator to 12. They also had to increase the FiO2 level, the amount of oxygen he is getting, to keep him saturating acceptably. I spoke with Mom and Johanna late tonight and we are in agreement that we want to encourage the doctors to order a CAT scan as soon as is reasonably possible to ascertain the details of his brain function. However, we will defer to their recommendations as to when this would be feasible given his condition. We are hoping all will pray for his recovery.

Our trip to town today was very productive, with us completing all of our tasks, except for getting drinking water and putting up wine at the Wine Cellar Club. We even climbed the fire tower on Museum Hill, after feasting on large helpings of delicious Mr. Chip French fries served up by none other than Wayne, Mr. Chips himself. I spoke to Ian, the manager at the Wine Cellar Club this morning, and arranged for us to go in Thursday at noon to bottle up the batches of wine that are lying in wait. (Interesting enough, the owner of the Wine Cellar Club’s name is Lance and the manager is Ian, the same name as my son.) It was a beautiful day on the bay today with lots of sun and the perfect temperature. I completed compiling and recording the water testing results tonight and should have them posted on the South Channel website in the next day or two. Preliminarily, the results look better than the last test results we received two weeks ago. Redner Bay is the winner of the cleanest water this time around, with zero detected total coliform and zero detected E. Coli.

We are elated to be in this beautiful place, but our joy is tempered by the seriousness of what is happening back in Rochester. Dear Lord, please help see our Pop back to wellness.