I don't need this pressure Ron

Only a couple more days to go to the first operation. It now seems only too real and makes me queasy with dread.

Preparation for the operation started today. The boy had a MRI. A process not without risk. He has a trachy with metal in it. So, the trachy has to be changed for one without metal in it before the scan starts and then changed back to his normal trachy afterwards. This can cause some trauma to his trachy site - really an unhealed hole in his neck. Our nervousness is compounded by our experience last time when something happened during one of the changes to make his neck bleed. A horrible sight to go into the recovery room to find him moaning with blood and secretions frothing from his trachy.

This time it seems to have gone ok. But now we have the worry of the night as anaesthetic depresses your breathing afterwards. Not a good thing as this means he needs oxygen and puts stress on his respiration. This makes him more likely to have an infection take hold.

Let's hope he has a good night and the scan result is ok. Scans are a bit like Russian roulette where they add a bullet each time as the more he has the more likely there is to be a bad result.

At least a trip to hospital means that there were ambulances to stroke. Always a winner in the boy's book. In the bottom right corner of the picture you can just see his arm waving as the ambulance goes past.