Message Twelve

So is Elizabeth making progress?  Elizabeth is having to deal with a second sore throat and temperature.  This is very painful for her, even with paracetamol.  It takes up all her energy.  We know that when she gets over this, she will be more able to work on her recovery.  She is making progress, but it is little things.  Every day her ventilator is turned down a bit, and Elizabeth is doing more and more of her own breathing.  The doctors and nurses say she is doing well.  Today she had no cannulas at all in her body.

Before we arrived at the hospital today, the physios brought in a 'tilt table'.  This is a board that allowed Elizabeth to experience the sensation of being upright, and to take some of her body weight.  We did not see it in action, but apparently she was briefly vertical again.

We have a discussion tomorrow with a nurse about the plan for Elizabeth to be moved to Leicester.

I was good to see Anna again before she returns to Senegal as part of her languages degree.

We continue to pray together with our four hands linked.  Interestingly, when we asked what we could do to help Elizabeth, our nurse B, told us to have 'up beat' conversations and pray.

We are aware of so many people praying for us.  Even people who do not normally pray, and don't really believe.  Both Margaret and I have experienced a sense that something good is going to come out of this which we believe is from God.  It's the sort of experience that is difficult to shake off.  It's much easier to think of it as 'wishful thinking', but so far the feeling is sticking around.