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Last night Dan wasn’t so great and was really crying a lot, which for Dan is unusual as for one he doesn’t cry and for two when he does you don’t hear it on account of his trachy.  However, last night you could really hear him and he sounded really chesty.  So I tried to suction him only to find that it wouldn’t go down properly, so I told his nurse who also tried and was able to get down properly.  But he still wasn’t right and looked like he was really struggling to breathe, to the doctor came to see him and said that it would be worth changing his trachy tube as it was due in the morning anyway and would help eliminate that from the problem.  So they changed his tube, first time i’ve seen it done, and immediately there was a change.  No more crying and you couldn’t hear him, on inspection you could see on the old one where his secretions had built up in the tube and was starting to block off.  After that he settled then finally by about 11pm he went off to sleep.  This morning before I left he was looking good although he’d only just woke but he was cool.  However, when Tom and I got back to the car we found the back window put through, great thing to find in the morning after spending the night with you sick child.  When I opened the door there was broken glass all over Bridie’s chair and the seat, was just lucky it wasn’t over Tom’s as he needed it.  Worst of all is it looks as though there was nothing taken as there wasn’t anything in the car in the first place.  There was a card on the windscreen from the police saying that they had seen it and wanted me to call to confirm that it had happened there but this was all a formality as anyone who’s had there car broken into would know.  On the up side though, if there is one, the insurance came through and two guys are here now fixing a new window in so at least I don’t have to drive round too long without a window!!  There really are some sick people out there though oddly enough almost a year ago this month I came out of a funeral to find someone in my car emptying it out who then had the cheek to walk off swearing at me when I chased him off!!!  What is the world coming too, someone please tell me.

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