Well it seems that Darryl is beginning to make himself at home at the HDU. He has pictures on the wall, cards all over the place, some of his favourite trinkets spread about his ’space’. But more than anything he had what I would describe as pretty relaxed day.
It started with yet another chest X-Ray to check on the progress of his chest infection, but on this occasion the result came back clear. Excellent, finally a real positive that felt so tangible I could almost give it a hug! I had thought that things looked on the mend because a little earlier in the morning Catherine and I who were in there with him and we were treated to something quite unique and certainly eye opening.
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Darryl had a more settled day today and while his temperature is still popping up quite high a lot of the times he was more relaxed and suffered less from the spasms he was having yesterday. The day started with him being strapped to the tilt table with him slowly being stood up to 45 degrees. His blood pressure went a little out of kilter so they didn’t raise him any higher but he still coped well with it.
Later in the day he also got hoisted out of bed onto a lazy boy chair complete with his tusty head gear. He looked pretty comfortable I’d have to say and so he should. I found out today that the cosy chair he has been sitting in would set you back around $10,000. Needless to say we aren’t planning on getting a set of those for his bedroom in anticipation for his return! I’m sure he’d rather perch on a beer crate. Waikato draft of course, his favourite, believe it or not.
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