Small Steps

This week Mary has been transferred from Intensive Care to High Dependency. This is a positive step down. It means she is requiring less intensive one-to-one care and she can breathe without any assistance. 

In this week’s physiotherapy sessions, although she remains unconscious, Mary began to show more movement and react to sound. She is also showing other small signs of progress like opening her eyes, and for longer, although she cannot 'see' yet.

Mary’s wounds are also looking better. Where skin has been taken from one part of her body to repair the loss of skin on another part of her body, this has now taken well. Infection seems to - finally - be under some sort of control. Where bones have been pinned in place the body is beginning to repair itself and swelling has gone down.