Didn't put anything up last night - I was a bit tired when I got back to the hotel.

We had a bit of a setback yesterday - Kendall is finding it very difficult to swallow anything, probably as a result of the swelling in the area. They tried him on red jello yesterday afternoon but even that was difficult. The breathing tube in his neck needs to be syphoned out regularly, to remove the crap remaining from the operation - I am not going into details here - and, after the jello, this stuff, according to Nurse Ratched (yes, we have one) had too much of a pinkish hue to be blood, which is expected, and she thought that there may be some jello getting into the wrong place.

Green jello was requested to see if that showed up, up yellow arrived - not much help. The resident was called and we were told that he wanted to start feeding Kendall via tube, which did not make the poor guy at all happy. When the resident got there this was discussed and put on hold until today, when they will do a barium swallow to see exactly what is going on down there.

So, he's still in ICU, as it is taking longer for the syphoning process to ease up and we have to wait to see what else is going on. The good news is that he has a delightful student nurse for basically one to one care and there is flirting going on there, I think both ways. She has made the stay in ICU much more bearable.

I'm off to the hospital in a few minutes, to be there when the resident does his rounds. We think that Dr Z may be in today.

More to follow.