11pm - Angela (Eric's sister) arrived from Iraq. Tough trip for her including being stuck at O'hare airport due to missed and canceled flights. Rick (Eric's friend) was kind enough to dirve to O'hare and bring her here to Champaign.

2:45pm - Eric's family would like to thank all of you (his friends, our friends and all others) that have sent kind words, good thoughts and much needed prayers for Eric. I truly believe that is what's making the difference as well as Eric's strong will to beat this. For those of you that don't know Eric, I hope you will. Eric is a great young man, a straight A student with the biggest heart I know. He is kind and very lovable. He's not out of the woods yet and he will get worse before he gets better so please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

2:30pm - We just finished our consultation with the doctor and we found out that they in fact did not insert the valve in his head. Eric's pressure dropped on it's own. The cat scan did not show anything different and they don't understand why his pressure dropped but we are all glad it did. His current pressure fluctuates between 3 and 8. The doctor is now inserting a tube in his left and right lung to remove some fluids which he believes is causing his oxygen levels to be low.

9am - Yesterday was a bad day for both Eric and Danielle. Eric had a valve put in his head to relieve the pressure which seems to have worked. Doctors this morning will be doing another cat scan to try and understand why the pressure dropped so drastically. As for Danielle, her pain medication was stopped which caused her pain and discomfort. To make things worse, a nurse came in to clean her up and thought that she had her surgery and removed the full body brace she was in. Needles to say, Danielle suffered severe pain.

We will get an update after 12 this afternoon as the hospital policy doest not allow us to see Eric from 7am - 12pm and from 7pm-9pm.