I'm home from a long day at the hospital. Ira did well for most of the day. This evening was hard. His stats kept falling and the nurses and docs were confused. They x-rayed to see if fluid had accumulated in his chest and played around with the ventilator. It was a hard three hours this evening as they worked and worked to stabilize Ira. There was fluid in his chest but not enough to warrant any action. They finally turned the pressure up on the ventilator and that helped stabilize Ira. As always it was hard to leave tonight. It was a reality check that we are not "out of the woods" just yet.