Update

As you can probably tell, I left Paul's phone with him last night at his request. I wasn't sure what he wanted it for, but I figured he'd try to post. :) Those numbers are actually pretty good. His bp is good and that heart rate has come down, it's been hovering at 120-130.

I just spoke with Dr. Thomas. He said his potassium is still looking good and his CK is coming down. His creatinine is still high though. I asked about the difference in these numbers.

The CK is a number indicating the amount of muscle breakdown. His were at 111,000 and today they are 100,000. Normal is 230-ish. We did some reading about this last night and found lots of info on marathon+ runners. They usually have high numbers (in the hundreds of thousands) because of what they put their muscles through, but they train for it, so their bodies can handle it, most of time. Rhabdo is a bit more common in that community though because of what they do.

Creatinine is a number that more indicates how the kidneys are functioning. I forget the number he told me, but it was in the single digits (5-6?) and is still high. I expect that will remain high until the rhabdo is done.

Dr. Thomas had been reading yesterday about rhabdo cases and saw one case where the patient developed compartment syndrome. This is where the rhabdo causes the space around the muscle to swell and essentially work as a tourniquet on the muscle - bad news. So he called an orthopedic guy in to check for that and he does not have it. The orthopedic had called to let me know late last night and Dr. Thomas said that he had been by again this morning and had the same conclusion. So thats good that we don't have to worry about that.

I have not gotten to the hospital yet today, I have to admit I slept in a little. Paul is on dialysis right now so I won't go in until 1 today, but then I should be able to stay all afternoon and hopefully get to see Dr. Thomas in person and maybe Dr. Jimenez this afternoon.