Not Today

Heather is too weak to get her ventilation tube out today. Her muscles throughout her body are all just mush. They say you lose 20% of your strength for every week you are in bed. The goal now is to get her doing multiple exercises to increase her strength so that not only her lungs are stronger, but all of her muscles are. The doctors keep saying that she is "very, very close" to getting the tube out, but not close enough. It is kind of maddening to be patient (I mean that in more ways than one.).