The surgery went just fine today!! They got a lot of air and blood out of his chest today and the lung seems to be doing fine so far. He is probably going to remain at St. V's for a couple of days...so his doctors there can keep an eye on everything. They already registered him a room and were planning on moving him back up to the ICU later this evening. He was still having some back pain after the chest tube was put in.... but nothing compared to what it was before so that is good :)
~Laura

Transferring to St. V's for Chest Tube Surgery

Ron has been in pain for the past few days- they did a CT this morning and found out that his right lung is collapsed and he has a huge pocket of air that is causing his organs to be pushed out of the way. They are transferring him back to St. V's right now so that they can surgically put in a chest tube to release the air pocket and re inflate his right lung. He will be under general anesthetics for the surgery and they have told us that it could be in for a week or so- it just depends on the individual case and the amount of scar tissue that his lungs have from the pneumonia for how long the recovery will be. They are speculating that he probably cracked a rib from coughing so hard and it punctured his lung.
We will update more after the surgery. Thanks for your continued prayers!