Apologies for the lack up blog updates since last Thursday but I haven't had much to report on. I'm sure you all gathered that Jimmy did not come home on Saturday morning as we were hoping. He continues to improve and is looking much better. He is getting out of bed to shower now and physio also have him up twice a day walking the length of high care after which he is quite exhausted.
I was relieved to hear from Dr Du Toit that the raspy throat he developed on Friday afternoon is as a result of the ventilator tube and not another infection. His blood pressure dropped a bit on Friday evening so he is on a drip to increase his fluid intake and it has already come up a little again. Hopefully by the time I see him today it will be near to where it was at the end of last week. He has also been put back on oxygen, not permanently but rather a couple of times a day.
He had chest x-rays done on Friday which were not as good as we were expecting and this is the reason he wasn't discharged. They took some more at 6am this morning and Prof Novitzky saw Jimmy just after 7am and said that Jimmy will be in hospital for a few more days.
On a sad note Ewen leaves today to go back home to the UK.... the past 10 days went so quickly. But as he says he arrived to a Jimmy that was better than he thought he would be thanks to a good turn the evening before and he leaves knowing Jimmy is so much stronger, out of danger and positively heading towards a full recover.
Thanks for all your love and support Ewen and the hours you spent keeping Jimmy company. Safe travels today xx
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