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[QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 3924936, member: 185"]
DCCuse update:  It's a good one!  The boy is on his way back!   I don't want to get ahead of myself but I'm VERY excited to hear from Rick's wife Jenn who reports that Rick is off on artificial heart/lung machine, he's completely off sedation and the breathing tube is out.  All good continuing all the trends in the right direction.

With the assist of the LVAD left ventricular pump assist device his heart is pumping again and he's breathing on his own for the first time in a while so its all systems go with the device looking solid and performing well.  The routine after this type major intervention is to stay in the ICU at this point even though he's stable to be sure all things go well and if not there's advance care right there just in case. With his young age and otherwise good health I'm feeling optimistic that the recovery will continue, inch by inch day by day at first right now, then gangbusters at a certain point toward normalcy, toward the new normal for him fpr many many years to come.

They are doing dialysis right now on him to be sure the organs get less stressed then hopefully he's able to get weaned off that for good as his numbers and situation improves.  That part will be determined as more time goes by in his recovery.

But I can tell you that this is about as good as we could have hoped for, all systems literally go, recovery in progress and on course time table wise and Godspeed toward the future where hopefully we see Rick in a later season tailgate.

Keep thinking positive DCCuse, you got the corner turned my friend!
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