They are working through the issues

Talked to my Dad this morning. As usual, he was upbeat and matter-of-fact. He's got multiple issues going on and they are chipping away at addressing each.

• They've gotten his heart rate down to 80, which the cardiologist was very happy about. However, the side-effect of this is that his blood pressure is now running about 70/40. He's not sure what they are going to do that, but their main priority was on resolving the irregular heart beat.
• His white blood cell count dropped to 1.8 and he also spiked a fever of about 101. Not a good combination. They have him in isolation now (and on IV antibiotics). They are still working to identify any possible infection that's going on. His temperature right now, however, is back to normal.

Overall, he said he isn't in any pain or discomfort, just very tired, weak, and drowsy. He's still clearly tracking on things - no loss of sharpness evident at all in our phone conversation. So we will just have to be patient as they work to get everything back on track.