Needing more blood

Conway is being given another unit of blood. This makes the third unit since getting up into ICU. They don't have in their notes how much he got in the OR, but they said it was a lot because as soon as they opened him, he lost a lot. He's being given cryo and had platelets and plasma too. His gases look excellent from a respiratory standpoint, and his numbers on the monitors are fabulous. The bleeding is even starting to slow down again from the chest tubes (it has been kind of yo-yoing all night). The only thing troubling the staff is that his crit has dropped, indicating that he is still bleeding. If he's clotting in the tubes and still bleeding around the heart that is a bad thing. It sounds like they are not in a hurry to rush back to the OR to do "chest exploration", but that is a possibility. They say that they are hoping after this blood and a few more hours he will settle out and his crit will come back up. On a good note, he is quite sleepy. We've been talking and he is doing what the nurse calls, "waking up appropriately". Not too soon, and not too long. He moves a limb, opens his eyes and goes back to sleep. I was planning on going to sleep tonight so as to give him no stimulation or reason to want to get up and fight the sedation, but now I think I'll stay unless I absolutely can't manage anymore. I just don't feel good not knowing for sure that he's going to stop this rollercoaster with the bleeding. Please pray for his bleeding to once and for all subside or get to an acceptable level. The nurse's fingers are about ready to fall off after "milking" the chest tubes so much. It's almost constant. She can stop for five mintues to get a little charting done or give a med and then it's back to working those tubes.