Sunday 9th July

This morning I saw the doctor who is in overall charge of Enmarie's case. He is a specialist in emergency medicine, and has been very conservative in his pronouncements about her condition.

However, today he said that her condition had improved and that she now has an 80-90% likelihood of making it through this. 

That's such good news! Last Sunday, she was given only 50%!

Enmarie is still on a ventilator but if all goes well she will be able to come off it in 2-3 days.

More good news: her daily chest x-ray is now starting to show some healing of her lungs whereas, up until yesterday there was no sign.

What of Enmarie herself?

This morning she was awake and only lightly sedated. She recognised me (for the first time in two weeks) and even managed a smile. She was coping with the ventilator extremely well. It's one thing having it when you're unconscious but to have a tube in your throat, breathing for you, when you're awake must be very distressing. Happily, it seems that she has somehow got used to it.

Enmarie used paper and pen to communicate and one of the first things she wrote was, "I want to get out of here!". Who wouldn't! However, I had to explain that it would be some time yet. She didn't realise just how close a call she'd had.

So, things are looking up. There are still possible complications, the doctor said, but Enmarie is starting to recover.