<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Chalkboard; "> Joe's about the same, though they had to turn the respirator back up. He's working too hard to breathe. This is not unusual. The doc will try again over the next few days, then do a trachiostomy if he can't get off the machine. It's temporary, he can be less sedated then and able to talk. His white cell count is down, his fever is at 101 and didn't get high over night. He was (too) alert just now, but I was able to talk to him and he understood. The nurse is giving him more medicine so he isn't bothered by all the tubes down his throat, poor dear. It's a waiting game. Love, Gay</div></body></html>