Mar 03 2011
Finally
Well, break out the champagne and cue up the noisemakers: A is finally out of Intensive Care!
After two months!
She’s now in what they call the Highly Dependent Unit, which would sound scary if she hadn’t been in the ICU for so long. Anything sounds good after that.
Apparently she still has the tracheotomy tube, but they’ve put on some kind of speaking attachment. C said that yesterday he heard her voice for the first time in eight weeks. Yesterday was a busy day for C: he picked up A’s mother at Heathrow and received news that his own mother had surgery for a cancerous tumor, though the prognosis was good. He must be beyond exhausted. If A ever gets out of there, Dr. Suzy prescribes a couple of weeks of lying on a beach somewhere.
She is having physiotherapy to help her learn to sit, stand, etc. again. After two months of inactivity, her muscles have atrophied. She still has a long way to go, but I think we can safely say she is out of the woods now.
Hoopla! as C would say.