Massimo was kept pretty much paralysed and sedated up till Friday when he started breathing a little better. By Sunday morning he was taking his ventilator tubing off and handing it to the nurse, as he does, and so they decided that it was probably time to put him onto CPAP. He did very well on CPAP until they took him the theatre to cauterise his gastrostomy on Monday afternoon, but by the evening he was back on CPAP (any general anaesthetic requires full ventilation). Hopefully they will also try him just on oxygen today and see how he copes.
They have been weaning him off the various drugs now for quite a few days and then this morning his canula (access to his vein) blocked off so they have decided that as he was so far down the weaning regime they could just stop all morphine and medazolam. So he’s now off the worst of the drugs too.
He is definitely on the mend and we hope he will be home soon.