And the trachy is gone ........ !!!!

Up to to-day, Douglas seemed to be doing very well on the micro trachy and talk was of 'maybe in a week or so we'll remove it altogether'.
This afternoon, Doug suddenly decided that he'd had enough of it and, with no warning, he undid the neck strap and popped it out himself. We were a bit panicky about this but the nurse said 'well OK, lets see how you do without it at all!' and applied a dressing over the wee hole.
All with the docs agreement of course!

By the time we left this evening, Doug had been doing fine, coughing and spitting as necessary!
I'll tell you what, it was NOT what we were expecting!!!!!

To top it all off, we were told that Friday next a team from the Astly Ainslie will be in to do an evaluation in preparation for Dougs admittance to rehab.
Whoopee .....................

However he does seem to be a bit more moody over the last couple of days, up and down, although when he's good, he's very good. Drowsy also tends to still be an issue but probably this is down to the anti-depressant they are using.

None the less it's all good progress :-))

Iain