Massimo isn’t out of the woods yet, but today he took two big steps forward. Firstly when we went to see him his paralysis medication had already been stopped and he was breathing well with the ventilator. No major traumas happened as he woke up, which had been their experience over the weekend, and everything went smoothly. Tattie Lucy turned up to visit at around 11.30 and when we went to see the little man he stirred and opened his eyes. He even managed a half smile! They gave him a little more sedation to send him off to sleep again and he did so gently.
With this good news, J and I went off for lunch and to do a couple of chores. When we got back to PICU Massimo was no longer on the ventilator but on CPAP and he was doing pretty well on it. His oxygen level was only on 30% and he was saturating at 99-100%. He was awake at times this afternoon and unfortunately was suffering the side-effects of being taken off the muscle relaxant, he was in effect going cold turkey! When we left this evening he was settled and happy and asleep for the night. Long may this positive trend continue!
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