What a difference a few days make. Since the horrendous low of a week ago Friday its been onwards and upwards for our little lady.
Jovies new trachey has been a (touch wood, cross fingers and all that) complete success so far with no more issues of note. As a result we have been able to note forward with learning the skills we will need to eventually get jovie home. Tape changes and all have been successfully completed and we are both feeling much more confident about the road ahead.
Jovie has continued to enjoy her new found 'freedom' and is getting a load more cuddles and attention as a result. Today she had her first proper bath with the trachey, a spell sat in her rocker seat for the first time and to the delight of all around her first spell inside her pushchair. Typically she soaked up all the attention and made the most of her first cuddles with other members of the family. Support from everyone has been great as always with visitors aplenty this week and a particuarly cool custom babygrow impressing all the nurses.
We have been given the preliminary discharge date of July 18th when all being well jovie will be moved out of intensive and onto a ward, a scary yet wonderful prospect. Before then however we will finally get the chance to take jovie out of her immediate bed space when for the first time we will be loading her into the pushchair for a little ride around the hospital. As trivial as it may seem just taking her outside, for her first look at the outside world, is going to be monumental for us. Very excited indeed. Following that we can really start to look ahead at the challenging yet amazing road which lies ahead. After everything we've gone through over the last nine weeks we literally couldn't be happier.
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