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So dad's condition is pretty much unchanged from yesterday. I talked to the doctor last night. He worried that Dad has failed to wake up because he's lost higher cognitive abilities. This is the worst case scenario -- dad's body continues to improve but his mind is gone. At this point that have no real physical concerns. He is doing well on the VADs, the kidney's are working, the liver is behaving acceptably. But he's not awake. A 24 hr EEG, showed nothing that the 20 min EEG didn't. There's no sign of seizures, but to get a real picture of what is firing in his brain they need an MRI which they can't do with the equipment that he has. So at this point we only have indirect evidence which is his responsiveness which is unchanged over the past couple of days. The result of this is that the doctors have no answers. They don't seem to understand why he won't wake up and can do nothing besides care for his body. While I talked to the nurses everyday, I will talk to the doctor again early next week. They fear he has lost higher cognitive functions and my choices are to allow him to remain in the state that he is in, or withdraw medical support.  But there is no clarity in any of that. For now, we wait, we watch, we hope we see.