FRIDAY NIGHT UPDATE-SEAN IS AN OLD MAN

Here's what's new:
1. Will and I spent time with Sean while Dawn and Liz went for a walk. He is starting to talk to us which we appreciate, but we also got a few big smiles out of him...mainly when we were beating up Elmo. I'm wondering if Sean wants someone else to feel his pain?
2. We learned Sean is taking Viagra. Now Will is confused. All he sees on the commercials are older men, they never show children in those. But I digress...who knew one drug can be used for many things. As you might suspect, this keeps his blood vessels open.
3. The doctors are slowly taking him off Nitric Oxide, which is a medication he breathes through his nose. Here's what NO does:
•It acts as a vasodilator (blood vessel relaxant).
•It therefore controls blood flow to tissues.
•It regulates the binding and release of oxygen to hemoglobin.
•It thereby controls the supply of oxygen to mitochondria (cell powerhouses that generate energy).
•It kills parasitic organisms, virus-infected cells, and tumor cells (by inactivating respiratory chain enzymes in their mitochondria).
•It stimulates the production of new mitochondria

That's about it. I'll be spending most of the day tomorrow with Sean so Dawn can come home for awhile.