Tuesday 11th July

As a blogger, I'm almost out of a job!

Enmarie has improved dramatically in the last 24 hours.

At ten o'clock this morning she had the ventilator switched off and the endotracheal tube removed so that she could breathe on her own, and speak again.

Her first words were, "Get me a Coke!", and I don't think she's stopped talking since.

She is all smiles and is obviously very happy to be back in the world of breathing and talking folk. 

She also had the nasogastric feeding tube removed and, at lunch today, is going to have her first solid food for two and a half weeks.

Now, free of all life-supporting aids apart from a little oxygen flowing up her nose via a plastic tube, Enmarie has normal blood pressure, a normal blood-oxygen percentage, a slightly high pulse rate and a normal breathing rate. These are all very positive indicators of healing lungs.

It's now hard to believe that she was at death's door only a week ago.

If all goes well, she'll be out of ICU and on to a normal ward before long.

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