13 September

First the good news:
Temperature slightly down, pulse stable at 86.
Now the neutral news:
tracheotomy not performed today, will be done tomorrow.
Now the other news:
Turns out his knee is broken as well and the pelvis is broken right through, not just cracked as we thought.
and the bad news:
They moved the tube in his mouth to the other side of the mouth this morning, while my mom was there, and found that there was a massive infection under the tube, with some of the lip gone and pus oozing out of the wound. This is ICU at Netcare Greenacres Hospital in PE. How long it takes before it gets to that condition is unknown to me but it probably doesn't happen overnight which makes me wonder about the supervision Colin is getting. They say they are going to move him to isolation, which is in ICU, in a tent, in order to reduce chances of infection. They say he will probably be there for a long time - How long we dont know.
The problem with getting no information, or limited information from the hospital, is that we tend to jump to conclusions - either negative or positive, which could be completely unwarranted. These guys could use some P.r.o! It may be unfair for me to conclude that the lip infection is evidence of negligence on their part but in the absence of any information to the contrary what else can we think? I'm mindful of the fact that his vitals seem to be stable and thankful for that.
More anon.