Hourrah!

Monday morning at 9:00 am arrival of doctors, the beginning of the round this time. Maybe the theory of when the doctors come is not correct.
It was the super big boss of all intensive care unit (there are 3 or 4 units), very academic, trying to ask questions to a charming young doctor. In short after 20 minutes of chatting outside the room with his team, he requests that the respirator be removed for Florian. Hurrah !!! We couldn't believe it.
Florian's girlfriend, Kirsten had stayed the night with him and he was super agitated the whole time while trying to move around.

They removed the tube in 2 min:  no more respirator or feeding tube,  when it took them hours to put them in. Throughout the day, they removed most connections to most machines, he only has his Mediport and lines for antibiotics hooked up.
He'll talk (or rather mumble) but he is still in a daze because of all the sedatives he took. The nurse gave us the reference dosage he received during these 4 days (50 years olds and older will understand). For a colonoscopy they give 3 grams of this sedative and had 150 grams of the same product on top of other meds. This means that it takes a while to leave his system but he is young so it should go faster. Tonight is already a bit more clear minded. The best is that you can not stop laughing, including him. He does not remember anything of what happened in the past couple of days, which is a good thing. He is still  very weak though( he can't stand alone or stay standing up without support) and very tired: he falls asleep very quickly after 5 minutes of "conversation".
The doctors are still trying to understand what could have caused the pneumonia and especially inflammation of the lungs and why it was so fast. More than likely we will never know with certainty but they still want to know in order to identify which drugs to keep giving him.
Tomorrow he should leave the ICU and return to the cancer center for a few days, so far his blood cells and platelets are low. He is clearly neutropenic. We'll see how it evolves, but apparently it's slowly getting better.
In short it was a good day full of events.
Florian can put up yet another battle (and not a little one) to his tally. He confirms once again that he is the strongest !! It won't be tomorrow that he will let this disease beat him.