Morning all!

I walked in to the room this morning and KENDALL SPOKE TO ME!!!!!!!

They took the breathing tube out this morning and he just has a gauze pad over the hole now. He has to hold his finger over the hole to talk, but has a deep, growly voice, which is easily understood. He's still writing stuff as I think it is a bit of an effort to talk, but he's getting there.

He has to have another barium swallow test today to make sure that he isn't aspirating into the trachea and, if that goes OK he can start eating. Given that everything goes OK we are told that he may be able to come home toward the end of the week, but they need to check that he is managing everything OK first.

Right now he's impatient to go for a walk - his blood pressure is up as a result of the steroids and he needs a little exercise regularly. I'll post more later.