Feeding time

We met two of Dave's friends when we visited this afternoon, Chris Caulder (not sure of the spelling sorry Chris!) from Sherborne and John Saunders from Yeovil who had travelled up together. Chris has visited a couple of times before and was really pleased that Dave squeezed his hand in recognition, previously he had only seen him with his eyes open.

After they finished their visit we went back in to see Dave and then it was time for his feed! It doesn't look very appetising - a beige coloured liquid which is injected into a tube that goes into his nose. Lesley and Paul, our daughter and her husband visited yesterday evening for the first time and she was thrilled because Uncle David recognised them and squeezed her hand. They had been to dinner with us earlier and she thought he looked starving hungry and would have enjoyed the roast dinner we'd had.

We went off for a coffee (actually a similar colour to Dave's food!) and then popped back to see him for a while. He looked really peaceful and comfortable today and was breathing on his own without the support of the tracheostomy, that's the first time since last Thursday which is good.