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Just spoke with the ICU nurse looking after him and while he is making great progress he is not out of the woods yet and if the CPAP machine doesn't do it they will have to put him back on the ventilator. He hates the CPAP, saying it is like being in a wind tunnel and the nurse said that she has agreed that it will be 1 hour on, 1 hour off, but overnight he has to be on CPAP because breathing is naturally light while sleeping and he needs to keep up a good flow of air into his lungs. When not on CPAP he has an oxygen feed through the nose.
We were both working in the greenhouse when the phone in my zipped pocket started playing the Imperial Death March from Star Wars. Had to scramble to put down tools and retrieve my phone.
Absolutely amazing to get to talk to him. We were hoping that they were going to be successful bringing off the ventilator today but never expected to talk to him.
Don't have a photo of his CPAP space helmet but I imagine it looks a bit like this.
outstanding news!!!
May the force continue to be with jeffrey!
So glad Jeffery is off the vent. Reading your family’s story has really touched me. It actually made me get off my bum and find a vaccine appointment.
Absolutely amazing to get to talk to him. We were hoping that they were going to be successful bringing off the ventilator today but never expected to talk to him...
Wonderful to hear about Jeffery's improvement!
The CPAP helmet sounds like the ones that were being used extensively in Italy this past year. They're manufactured by a Texas company, Sea-Long Medical Systems. There's a photo and article here
Happy day!
Your son may get out of the hospital soon. I suspect your wife already thinks of a meal to welcome him home. What's his favorite dish?
Wonderful to hear about Jeffery's improvement!
The CPAP helmet sounds like the ones that were being used extensively in Italy this past year. They're manufactured by a Texas company, Sea-Long Medical Systems. There's a photo and article here
Wow, more great news! He must be feeling much more comfortable!Another FaceTime session this morning with Jeffrey. He spent the night on the CPAP machine in the space helmet but feels he won’t need it during the day. All very encouraging.
He says they want him to eat yogurt this morning for breakfast and even though he doesn’t normally like it we told him to do as he is told as the powerful antibiotics he has been on to combat the secondary infection will have devastated his gut bacteria.