DAY 156

FiO2 setting: 80
Pressure setting: 31-32
Dopey's O2 saturation: 87-89
Milk intake: 24ml/hr

It's terribly frustrating and disheartening that every time we managed to decrease the settings a little, we have to go back up again when he can't maintain his saturation. With much yo-yoing these few days, we have not managed to make any progress to wean him off the ventilator.

Which means that he is not improving. Which means the longer he is on the ventilator, the more likelihood that the high pressure & O2 will cause permanent damage to his lungs. And the longer he is on the anaesthesia/muscle relaxant, the more the inmobility will result in his muscles wasting away.

And yest morning, had a fright again when his ventilator stopped. It's the 2nd time around. At least this time I know, with past experience behind me, that it is faster to run out of the room yelling for the docs than just pressing the call bell and waiting for someone to come.

And today, he seemed to have suddenly visibily lost weight. He looks quite gaunt. Perhaps it is bcos he has passed out all those accumulated fluid in him, and that removed that artificial plumpness that we've been seeing these weeks?

Oh, and Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Chapter 7