Day 9

Another shouty night, but otherwise very settled and Holly slept until after 10am. She even practically slept through the docs doing their rounds. She did manage to mumble and do a bit of sign language when they asked her anything, but made it quite clear that she was going to stay asleep! I think she knew that when she woke up properly the nose tube was going to be re-done!

She has had another day of improvement and the docs are pleased with her progress. They have reduced her morphine dose today as she is doing so well. Her mouth was covered by a hugh blister this morning. She couldn't help playing with it and, all of a sudden, squealed and showed me it. It was half hanging off! I got our nurse, who took one look and got our doc. She looked and told Holly not to pull the rest of it off. Holly then proceeded to close her mouth, smile and then produce the huge blister out of her mouth! It was truly disgusting and the nurse, doc and myself were horrified. Holly just smiled and seemed very proud of it!

She has been reading quite a bit today and watching tv. It has definitely been a better day again. Her neutrophils have now risen to 0.02 which is also good news.