Much news today, with a cautious positive outcome. Enmarie is feeling much better. She has more energy, she's walking around, her appetite has increased and she's generally happy and smiley. It's very good to see! Since my last post she has seen the specialist in Emergency Medicine who saved her life in ICU, the specialist in Infectious Diseases who has been overseeing her treatment for the pneumonia and endocarditis, and a new doctor: a heart surgeon, of whom more later. An x-ray this morning showed continuing, improved healing in Enmarie's lungs. As a result of this she has been taken off the oxygen which is excellent news, meaning that her lung function is now good enough to give her a normal blood-oxygen percentage. Essentially, she is done with the pneumonia, apart from convalescence. The MRI showed the details of something I haven't mentioned before, because there was enough bad news already! As a result of the blood poisoning some bacteria found the
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