But enough about that - what's up with your eye??

It's so absurd. To have been on pins and needles about the pneumonia, your fever, your trach, your ventilator... and finally, as all of that worry has reached a plateau for now, we've begun noticing other things.

Like your left eye. The bottom white of your eye is... puffing out along the bottom of your eyelid. And we've noticed it before, but then we were a bit swept up in worrying about your lungs. The night of the fire, your eyes suffered corneal abrasions. They've been treating it steadily and your corneas have all but cleared up. But you've got scleral edema, and now, since your lungs are starting to show steady improvement, we're back to worrying about it.

I consider this a success. Picking up where we left off before the 'P' word.

So there you are, a man who's escaped an inferno (with the help of the heroes at Station 19, thankyouverymuch); a man who's not only fighting his way through smoke inhalation injuries, but pneumonia, too; a man who's faced challenges at the cellular level, what with all the toxins that absorbed into his bloodstream. And here's Asia and me: Ick. What's wrong with his eye?

I don't know, Daddy. Is an eye trivial? I don't think so. I really want you to have healthy eyes. Just because you seem to be back from the brink doesn't mean we don't want as much of you as healthy as possible. We're grateful for every blessing that has come and still, we'll continue to ask for a healing of all your wounds.

We're glad for every new day, every new triumph, every new ick factor that shows us we're starting to surmount the life or death situations and notice a little scleral edema here and there.

End of day update: Temperature: 38.3 C; Oxygen assistance: 50%; PEEP: 10. Very, very good. Now, let's start bringing down the PEEP number, Daddio.