Monday early afternoon update.........Doctors took the paralytic off this morning. Geoff is still on Versed and Diprivan and quite out of it. (Diprivan is what they are calling milk of amnesia). Nurse Holly was suctioning his mouth out and he closed his lips on the suction tube like a straw. Geoff has been coughing on the vent, and is breathing well above the vent setting. Lungs, well, there always has to be a bad part of every story, this is his. Lungs are still filling with fluid, and they believe he has a Plueral Effusion under his right lung. Plan is to clean the lungs again, then tap his abdomen to drain the effusion. The monitor on Geoff's head, known as a BIS, registers the level of conciousness of the patient. At 20, they can operate on you. At 60, you should be awake. Geoff was running 25 when I went in to see him and after talking to him and rubbing his arm, it shot up to 45. Still too many drugs on board to wake up, but definitely forward progress!!!!!