In theory: the autumn daylight saving time change
= an extra hour of sleep = divine!!!

Unfortunately, Mr Leo does not recognise this practice.
He stubbornly continues to get up according to summer time,
which in practice changed the time from 5:30 to 4:30 in the morning.
And there are no excuses; we have to get up, no discussion.
(And if not, then I will destroy
the precious as gold pulse oxymeter sensor, yes I will!!!)

After three such nightmarish wake-ups, Leomom took his son for a serious talk.
She persuaded, explained, argumented, begged…

In response, Mr Leo (polite and conciliatory as usual) has reset his inner timing.
Precisely by an hour.
Backwards.
Half past four in the morning has become half past three.
Precisely 3.30 :-/

And at 3.30 sharp, regardless of the thick darkness all around,
Mr Leo sat in his crib, disconnected from the ventilator and announced general wake-up.

Acting on an impulse, Leoparents decided to incapacitate their baby.
They kidnapped him with all his equipment and put him in their bed,
gagged him with a tranquilizer, tied up with a duvet,
brought to a standstill with a hug…
And froze in anticipation of a huge scene.
But to the contrary, Mr Leo sighed, cuddled in and lied there with them until 8.30!!
Without the ventilator, completely on his own breath!!!
And Leoparents slept hugging him!!!
For the first time since Leo was born, they lied in bed,
all three of them, without the discomfort of cables and tubes,
without the accompaniment of ventilator’s whistles…

In the course of laboratory research Prof. Leo
has proved that stickiness of some liquids in isobaric conditions is not constant,
but it changes over time.
Whereas, the flowing curve
(a diagram of relation between tangent tensions and velocity of coagulating)
does not fulfil linear dependency.
He was very excited about this discovery.

Leo went to a party to his pal Piotruś.

It was fantastic!

He spent most of the party in the toilet,
playing with the most wonderful invention he has ever seen – a bidet!!!

Standing up to his ankles in water,
he turned the water on and off in an ecstatic burst of passion,
he splashed water on his friends and under no circumstances did he let being taken home…

Nights are horrible again.

It is probably (yet not only) the effect of a leakage
around tracheo tube that’s getting bigger and bigger.

Thanks to the leakage, Leo starts to make more sounds
and will learn to pronounce his first words.
But because of the leakage Leoparents can’t sleep
… almost at all.


It looks like this:


Around 8 pm Leo goes to bed.
He falls asleep connected to the pulse oxymeter and the ventilator,
listening to the music and watching a spinning carousel
(which should have been removed from his crib a long time ago,
but every attempt of taking it down ends up in hysteria, so it’s still there ;-)).
Until midnight, Leo sleeps on his back, almost still, calm.

And around midnight, he starts to wriggle
(it is exactly around the time Leoparents go to sleep, too).
Leo turns onto his stomach, presses the ventilator’s tube with his weight
and obstructs the oxygen flow, which leads to saturation drop.

The alarm goes off…
We have to get out of bed and turn Leo on his back.
***

From his back, Leo returns to his belly position.

The tracheotomy tube bends sideways,
this makes the current parameters of the ventilator insufficient.
Alarm.
We have to get out of bed and increase the ventilator’s parameters
(and be blinded by the super bright display of the ventilator in the process).
***
Leo is wriggling, he’s having a dream.
The tube rolls around him, stretches to the maximum and...
disconnects from the tracheotomy tube.

Alarm.
We have to get up and connect Leo to the ventilator.
***
Leo returns to his back.
The ventilator parameters become too high and they have to be readjusted again.
***
Leo changes his position, and so the parameters are too low now.
Saturation drops.

Alarm.
We have to get up and readjust the parameters.
***
Leo turns to his side,
wraps in the cable and plucks out the pulse oxymeter sensor.

Alarm.
We have to get up, turn the lights on, find scissors and plaster, and fix the sensor.
***
After a while the sensor turns out to be broken
(Leo has probably damaged it when he turned to his side,
and something disconnected).

Alarm. (F***!!!)
We have to get up, turn the lights on, find scissors, plaster,
and a new sensor, and then put it on the little hand and turn off the lights.
***
Leo turns three times and wraps himself in the tube attached to the tracheo tube.
The tube bends and... pops out of the whole in the neck.
Alarm.
We have to get up, turn on the lights, find scissors, bandage, band, new tube,
Octanispet, Skinsept, gloves, wake Leo up, disinfect hands,
then the wound around the tube, put the tube into the larynx,
put on the bandage, put on the band, find tranquilizer,
turn on the music, the carousel, and put the baby to sleep…
***
And this goes on intil the morning, roughly 4 incidents of this kind an hour.
At 6:00 sharp Leo wakes up, sits in his crib,
ostentatiously throws out his tranquilizer over the barrier,
and disconnects from the ventilator with one quick and smooth move.
Alarm.

PS. To make sure Leoparents will get up instead of lying illegally in bed
looking lazily at the pulse oxymeter display,
Leo picks the sensor from under the plaster.
(Alarm.)
This is a 100% guarantee of Leoparents instantly jumping out of their bed.
Because they never know, if Mr Leo will not wish to sleep just a little while longer…

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Body art, action painting, performance…

Mr Leo (unlike Leoparents) has recovered rather quickly
from the damages caused to his psyche by the last hospital stay.
He pushed it out of his system, denied it, erased, forgot, annulled.

Unfortunately, the infection left traces elsewhere.
His breath did not return to normal – at night, apart from the ventilator,
Leo requires an additional oxygen support.
It’s better during daytime, however our walks have to be moderate now.
Leo spends most of his time at home (working on his painting skills, for instance).

Ladies and Gentlemen,
in the second and third quarter of 2012,
stemming from the conception of automatism and characterised by free lines,
early Leoart has evolved in the direction of abstract expressionism.
Toned-down colours became more intense, and the diagonal composition has been replaced
with expressive composition of a horror vacui type, bringing to mind Palaeolithic petroglyphs.
Through a play of non-figurative shapes, the Artist obviously refers to Kandinsky’s work,
however the repetitions of certain motifs, as well as his own choice of painting tools
determines the Artist’s truly original style. Among various geometrical forms,
the element that appears most often is a circle – the symbol of absolute,
perfection, infinity and inner harmony. Another recurring motif is a spiral,
whose signification is a topic of many arguments among specialists;
however it is probably a symbol of birth and/or rebirth.
This theory is supported by a dominant of orange,
a colour referring to fire – the element evoking deep inner transformation.
And the cinnabar red is on the one hand the colour of life and vitality – vitalis;
while on the other, a sign of fight and revolution.
The artist leaves many understatements, and uses deep symbolism,
referring to the painting traditions of the 20th century,
Eastern philosophy and to primitive art,
and leaving space for the recipients to create their own interpretation
and feel the works their individually.


Leo Hueckel - Śliwiński, Bez tytułu

Leoparents discovered some mysterious traces in their apartment…
It seems like some kind of Fruit-eating Mouse has infested there!

Or a Flying Dog?
Or maybe a Lion?

For the first time after a long break, Mr Leo went outside.

And right away, he came across a flying dogs competition.

The animals went high up in the air and caught discs thrown at them by their owners.

Leo was elated!

After he came back home,
it turned out that the competition made a seriously strong impact
on Leo’s identity and the way he perceives reality.

Leo started fetching like a dog ;-)


Unfortunately, Leo still needs the oxygen support during the day,
and especially in the afternoons.

Because of that, he needs to be connected to pulse oxymeter at all times,
as it monitors his breath.
Every more rapid leg movement causes incorrect readout,
which sets off the piercing sound of the alarm.
You can never know, if the alarm goes off because of this error or saturation drop.
Tangled in metres of cables and wires,
on a 1,5 metre long oxygen lead, Leo is not only unable to go outside,
but he is also forced to live a completely sedentary life.
He spends whole days playing with his building blocks
and flipping through his favourite educational books.

But even the books begin to bore him…


The new equipment has also influenced the qualities of our nights,
enriching the orchestra of Leo apparatus with new type of puffing and blowing… :-/
Nocturnal symphony: