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Ciara is feeling much better today and is nearly back to her normal self. Pretty chatty and jokey so that's good. She's started to make progress in the poo department too after the indignaty of a supository earlier (finally cleared by St John's) and has been eating and drinking well.

This was after a pretty tough night. The x-ray showed a large impaction of poo and she'd been vomiting lots and lots of bile. I noticed what looked like faecal matter in it at about 2am so she had to have a nose tube put to draw off liquid from her stomach. The tube was in for about an hour before she sicked it up again.

The vomiting stopped around 4am and she's been gradually perking up since then. Wee output is a bit low still, not helped by neither Yvonne nor I being good catchers, but depending on how well she does over the next 24 hours she should be out tomorrow night, fingers crossed. We are finally getting oral laxitive to work but it takes a day or so to have any effect as it tries to ballance out the system quite gently.

All sound pretty yucky when typing it but I seem to have become immune, I didn't feel squeemish at all! Bodilly functions are fascinating!