Just spoke with Karen who spent the night at Connie and Wayne's.

He had a rough time in surgery. He had been in huge waves of pain from the haematoma and when they went in there, they took out a litre of blood from both sides of his belly. They've been having trouble with his blood pressure because of his haemoglobin, so they gave him two units before surgery, during surgery and after surgery. He spiked a fever last night and there is a bit of pneumonia in the upper lobe of his lung, left side, I think. He is on a vent, but they are starting to wean him off of that. He is in ICU. I forgot to ask about cards, but will send Connie and email and ask.

Despite all of that, Karen sounded very upbeat, though tired, and Connie did, too. Karen is going to go see him, soon, and then will go home for the first time in a couple of days where she will spend the night. She hasn't seen the boys in a couple of days and is looking forward to it.

Please keep sending your best, mostest powerfull Mudcat mojo and let's push him over the hump (oh, that's a camel, not an elephant, huh? Well, let's just give him a huge lift, what say you?!)

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