Deja vu

One step forward and two steps back. After making some progress yesterday in starting to breath a bit more for herself and generally improving responsiveness Mum has had a bit of a set back today. She now has a collapsed lung and has been sedated because she was becoming distressed by the difficulty in breathing and the ventilator tube. It gives the doctors a chance to clear her lungs as the chest infection is worse and time for the lung to recover.  The result of the lumbar puncture shows that she hasn't got meningitis which is a relief so they've now swapped her antibiotics from ones that treat that to ones that will treat the chest infection.
The doctors admit that they may never know what caused the seizures which in turn caused her collapse on Tuesday.
For now they are concentrating on treating her symptoms and getting her breathing for herself.
The set back is naturally a disappointment but sadly seems par for the course having spent time talking to the relatives of other patients in the ICU who are undergoing similar journeys.
Had a day off today but heading back up for a visit tomorrow although I'm not sure that she'll know we are there.