On the up?

This morning I had an episode... my oxygen levels in my blood went down quite hugely... They took my tube out and guess what...? It was blocked! So I've got a (nice) new one and I'm much more comfortable. When Mummy arrived today I was on about 30% oxygen on my ventilation, this has gone up a bit during the day and went down quite a lot too, I'm not on air yet, but hopefully will be soon.

I'm not really puffy any more which is great, so they've taken me off of the diuretic and they've increased my fluids and my milk which is now 1.5ml's per hour, so hopefully any weight I put on now will be true weight and I'll get bigger muscles!

My course of antibiotics has finished and my 5 day course of steroids is over and they seem to have worked as my oxygen requirement is now much lower and so is the pressure of the ventilation... Before it comes out and I breathe on my own they're likely to try me back on conventional ventilation again just to see how I cope, but this will be in a few days.

Ouch! I've got sticky things all over me holding wires for the monitors in place... but they've taken one off and taken some of my skin with it... It's really sore, just like when you've exposed a layer of skin and haven't yet reached where it bleeds - it's very stingy.