Peter Murray update

Quoted directly from hrrunka:

Another day, another visit to Ashford on a pleasant sunny afternoon.  The Intensive Therapy Unit was rather busy, so I spent more than half the time sitting around waiting for them to get things done.  Such is the way with ITU.

Peter's now off the sedative, but the residual is taking a while to clear his system, so he's still on the respirator, and they're regularly clearing stuff from his chest.  As the sedative wears off he's beginning to take some breaths of his own, but mostly the respirator's still doing the work.  His legs are still rather swollen, but the excess fluid is slowly being removed.  He's on fewer drips, but the dialysis machine's still running the whole time.  However his kidneys are showing signs of functioning again.  One of the breaks in my visit was because they wanted to fit a catheter to take care of that.  I talked a while, passing on the various "get well" wishes I've read on LJ and YW but I've no idea whether he's awake enough to take anything in.  His sister arrived just as I was leaving.