Amazing News...

Tuesday
Hit the marvel that was Braehead shopping centre. This is the place the spinal unit suggest you take patients when they are up and about, as therapy for the wider world. I suggested if they take Colin here, he will fling himself down the escalators. No man should have to go through the trauma that is the Braehead shopping centre.
As Colin was in the past is unaware that there was even more than one shop at the Gyle, good luck to the person that has to navigate that centre with Colin.
Amazing news (as promised in the title)- Colin's cuff was deflated (the cuff is the part of the ventilator that prevents air passing through the vocal chords and prevents him from speaking) an hour and a half into my visit. So after an a hour and a half of lip reading chat, Colin was able to speak, sounding like a husky George Clooney.
Relief all round. After garrotting himself, there was a possibility that his vocal chords had been damaged.So after a couple of sentences of "How amazing" and "I can hear myself speak!", we looked at each other, and suddenly thought, we couldn't think of anything to say.
Stacey (the nurse), inflated cuff after 5 minutes, and was it my imagination, but were Colin's last words "Promise, not the Braehead shopping centre!"