Just a quick update to let you know that I didn’t get my cuddle yesterday but am hoping to get one tomorrow, however Massimo is VERY happy indeed in his new heated cot and is waking up nicely. The doctors said it would take some time for all the drugs to work their way out of his body, but he moves a little more every day. He is beginning to really grip when you give him your finger to hold and he seems to respond to my voice and touch as well as J’s voice and touch, which is very satisfying. All in all, the progress is good. What the future will hold, we don’t know as yet, but for the moment every step forward is a positive thing. I am attaching a picture of the little chap in his new bed with tracheostomy in place. As you can see the ventilator (big clear tube going to his neck, with 2 blue and one clear tube coming off it) looks quite daunting but once he learns to breathe on his own this will go and he will be left with a small plastic circle round the hole in his neck – still not nice but necessary.
Fingers crossed that he continues to improve