Moving on ?

Val and I visited Dave this afternoon, looking out for nurses brandishing beard trimmers ( I don't want to lose mine yet)! We were able to have a chat with the Doctor who said that as Dave is now breathing for himself and does not require as much life support equipment, now is the time to move him on to a high dependency neurological ward, probably tomorrow, but we must not be surprised if he has a setback and subsequently returns to ITU. There is considerable concern over the fact that he is not yet responding as they would like, but all we can do is wait patiently. The Doctor stressed that Dave is extremely vulnerable to infection at the moment. When he has settled in to the new ward, perhaps the visiting situation will be able to be reviewed. We would like to thank you all for being patient on this one, we realise that it must be frustrating, but it is in everyone's best interest. Thanks to Trevor Frid for his kind letter and card, which we read to Dave along with Jilly's last comment from the blog.