12 sept

Colin's temperature rose slightly again today but not as bad as before - his eyes are opening quite often but not registering anything - they seem to be reducing the anesthesia in the weaning process. He grimaces with pain and seems to want to cough. They will be performing the tracheotomy tomorrow. The specialist actually spoke to my mom this morning and was quite pleasant. Another nurse from hell was on duty - told mom that she shouldn't look at the machines or ask questions about the relevance of oxygen volumes, temperature, heart rate etc, mom's tired after nearly two weeks down there. The waking up process is apparently always quite difficult. They have quite severe withdrawal symptoms from the anesthesia, but positive in the sense that there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
More tomorrow.