So here's the skinny on Ira. His pulmonary hypertension has been regulated with Viagra and Nitric Oxide through the CPAP since the mishap with his Broviac line. Monday's ECCO showed that Ira's heart's function is good and so with that, they decided to begin weaning Ira from the NO today. He went from 10 to 5 on the NO today and then they did another ECCO this evening. They will probably continue to wean tomorrow turning off the NO completely. And then they will see how Ira does over the weekend on just the Viagra and do another ECCO on Monday hoping to make a decision about the Flolan and removal of the Broviac. We want so badly for Ira not to have the Broviac.

If you can follow any of the bs above then bless you. The short of it is that we were all pleased with the outcome of Monday's ECCO and now await how Ira will do on Viagra alone.

(BTW: The proper abreviation for echocardiogram is probably "echo" but I've been influenced by Ira's charts where it is sometimes abbreviated as you see it above.)