Updated as of Nov 6th 12:00pm

Hello, I talked to mom today and she said that Drew will be moving to a surgical floor where the surgeon who preformed his surgery will be looking after him. He is now on 3liters of oxygen which is down from the 6-7 liters he was on before. The pain pump will be moving with him. Drew is still in isolation for the time being. He still has the 3 chest tubes in that where put in during the surgery. They are still monitoring for infection. He is on some pretty heavy duty anti biotic right now, so they are hoping that will combat any possible infections.

Thursday Night

Hello Everyone, this is Marty. I just want to start off by thanking everyone for everything. I really do appreciate all the comments that you have left, all the prayers, all the...there are too many things to manage. Especially, thanks to Drew's sisters for keeping you all updated. As of tonight, Drew is doing well. He was able to get the ventilator taken out this afternoon, and he is loving not having it in. He was quite frustrated not being able to communicate with us. Our incredible nurse, Sandy, said that because he doesn't smoke (yes Chris, this is a hint) and he is very active, it was able to come out so soon. They also gave him a pain pump to better manage his pain. He is no longer feeling any pain from his lungs, but just his incision, which is massive. He just needs to remember to practice deep breathing. He has even moved his oxygen level down from a 6 to a 3 (since I am not a medical person at all, not entirely sure what that means, but whatever). The doctors even think that he might be out of ICU by tomorrow, and out of isolation by the weekend, so we are hoping he keeps up the good work. Once, again. We can not thank everyone enough for all the prayers and well wishes. I know that I sometimes live in a bubble, and take for granted all the wonderful people that I have in my life. This has been a life changing experience for us.

Update as of Nov 5 th 5:00 pm

We got a call from mom saying that the breathing tube is now out and they have set Drew up with a pain pump to help manage his pain. Other than that we are still going on no new is good news.

updated as of 1:00pm Nov, 5, 2009

Hello everyone, I just talked to my mom a few minutes ago and she says Drew is awake and aware for the most part. They have him on some pretty heavy pain meds right now so they are trying to keep him awake as much as possible. The breathing tube is still in but they hope to be taking it out this afternoon. They only had to put it in for the surgery so they are thinking he will manage OK without it. The Doctors expect him to be in a significant amount of pain due to the long surgery and are planning to try some different pain medications after the breathing tube comes out. During the surgery they where able to clear out the left lung of any fluid and blood and where also able to inflate it, so now it will be up to Drew to start breathing with it now. The Doctor are now just monitoring him closely for infections that could come about due to the surgery. Drew has a full time nurse monitoring him at all times and seems like he is in really good hands there in Calgary. We are all trying to be optimistic at this point and the more time that goes by without incident the better. We will update again when there is more news.

update nov 5 9:00am

We just talked to mum and she just called up to the hospital and they said that Drew had a good night. He is still intubated(not sure if that's how it's spelled) but they will hopefully be removing the breathing tube sometime today after doing some tests. They will continue to carefully monitor him as he still isn't out of the woods yet but we are feeling very optimistic that the surgery went so well and that he has been stable throughout the night.

update as of 11:45pm Nov. 4, 2009

Well we just got news that Drew is now out of surgery and it went well. The doctor is saying he is optimistic because Drew did so well during the surgery. He will be monitored closely over the next 12 to 24 hours to make sure he is recovering from this part of his ailment properly. There will be more in depth to follow, but we figured we should let people know this for now anyways! He still has a long road ahead of him, but this is a good step, thanks for keeping him in your prayers!

After reading some of the comments on facebook it seems that some people are unsure about what got Drew to this point. Just to clear it up. Drew was admitted to the hospital last Wednesday with pneumonia as a result of having H1N1. The pneumonia has continued to worsen and they have been trying for a week now to figure out how to help him. That is of course the condensed version.