Saturday

Today was Louise and my first solo venture up the M8. After the terrifying experience of 5 lanes of traffic, we made it to Dad in time for visiting.
Dad was in better spirits today, although he was very tired. He is now up to 2 sets of 3hours off the vent, on BIPAC, which will take a breath for him if he misses one. On Monday they are going to start the completly un-assisted breathing again. Hopefully this will be the start of good things and we many even get them to deflate the cuff a little to allow him to drink and to talk. Fingers crossed.
Louise and I chatted to him about all things going on in the world. We read the Saturday paper and kept him going through the 3 hours where he did not want to sleep.
He is not enjoying the new Dan Brown book, so any recommendations of a new crime novel that he may like will be very much welcome. We just finished the new Ian Rankin, but we are all completly clueless about the world of crime novels!
Tomorrow Dad's Dad is going with his sister to visit for the first time since the accident. I feel tomorrow will be quite an emotional day for Dad.
We met a very nice representative from Spinal Injury Scotland, who talked to us about his injury and about the work that they do in the Spinal unit. It was great to hear about his injury and recovery. He worked towards his goal "to walk out of the rehab unit" and made it. This kind of dedication to recovery, and results, will be good for Dad to hear in time. At the moment they do not go onto Dad's ward, due to the amount of medical intervention, however I feel it will be good for Dad to have someone to chat to soon!