One more for tonight

So here is where we stand: The issue has come down to mental competency (not mine, though clearly thats at issue right now) but whether something happened in the operation that cause some sort of melt down of higher brain cognitive functions. The fact that he has not woken up is the problem. The current theory is that the medicines that he had that sedated him are still in his system, the kidneys are not passing them out. So his has been living in this dream world created by the drugs that were only supposed to keep him there temporarily. Instead because his kidney is on strike, they have trapped him there. In a television show we might have a dream collaborator machine that allowed us to enter his dream and lead him out. Maybe find him and push him off a ledge. But in reality, what we have are kidney dialysis machines that will cleanse his blood of the drugs and toxins that have been building up. With luck he will start to respond by tomorrow. Maybe not exactly wake up, but be able to squeeze hands, open his eyes, interact with the world, however fuzzily. If not then we have got problems -- big problems. Its clear dad is mentally slipping away. Two days ago he would open his eyes however briefly, now he does not. He would squeeze your hand, now he does not. Now his upper body doesn't respond to either pain or command. His feet will still move if you tickle them, but how much longer will that last? At the rate he was going not long. So now we hope the dialysis gives him a clean start. If not the neurological big guns come in, but at that point they are not extending a lot of hope. So now we hope that like the who's in whoville, he will shout loudly, "we are here, We Are Here, WE ARE HERE!"