A strange day today! I called early morning as usual to see how Briony was and everything was fine - same as usual really.
However, when I turned up at the hospital at about 2pm everything had changed! Apparently they had been trying to get hold of me (I'd chosen to unusually leave my phone at home), so had spoken to Stephen instead, but they wanted to transfer her to Stoke Mandeville in the next 30 minutes!
They had switched her from the vapotherm to something called CPAP, which is a bit more invasive and looks like she is a character in Star Wars - I will take some pictures. Apparently Stoke Mandeville don't use Vapotherm, hence the switch.
It felt very weird leaving Oxford and knowing that in the next 30 minutes our little girl would be making her first trip in the big outside world and neither Stephen nor I would be there. Luckily I didn't see the ambulance leave or drive past on the motorway on the way back.
A big thank you to my Aunt (Eileen) and cousin (Katy) who had come to visit for the day and successfully managed to distract me - we saw her ambulance waiting for her as we were leaving the unit and they took me off for a cup of tea so I didn't have to see her loaded up and the ambulance leave.
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