Quiet Day

Peter had a relatively quiet day today. He slept for quite a bit but was also calmly awake for some of the day, although he did have to be given some morphine when he would not settle down after being turned by the nurse. His heart rate has improved a little (about 135bpm) but the chyle leak persists unabated. Please pray that this situation will resolve itself soon. An X-ray showed that he has some trouble with air trapped in his chest cavity (pneumothorax), something that happens quite commonly with patients like Peter and is a short-lived phenomenon.