Day 31 – Saturday 13 December 2008
I really can’t believe it is Saturday already and only 12 days to Christmas. I suppose we ought to think about doing some Christmas shopping....
As it is the weekend, once again there is not much to report. Kevin, the lad opposite Paul has gone home for the weekend and the other chap in the ward tends to spend most of his time in the day room, so we arrived to find Paul on his own, watching Casino Royale, surrounded by the debris of another empty box of chocolate muffins.
He had managed to get himself to the loo unaided this morning, although he got a ticking off from the nurses as he is not meant to, but he had buzzed and nobody had come so he was desperate!
We took his X-Box in for him today which pleased him, so he played a couple of games on it and then Eilidh and Anna arrived for a visit. As there was a problem with his second television, we took the opportunity of returning it to Tesco’s and swapped it for a branded one (LG) rather than Tesco’s own brand (Technika) which have proved to be unreliable. Hopefully the new one should be fine.
Eilidh and Anna left when he went for supper and Andrew and Aaron arrived after supper and stayed until visiting was over.
Looks like I can sort the mobile phone out for him – he wants an i-Phone for Christmas so we might be able to buy one of those for him and keep his contract and number going, but I need to ring back Monday to confirm. A replacement sim should be on its way and I have an old phone he can use for now, so hopefully by early next week he will be able to get back in touch with you all.
Just as we were getting ready to leave one of the nurses came in with a convector heater and said that the heating had failed in the whole hospital – apparently a pipe has burst and although they had called the engineers out, they weren’t sure how long it would take to fix so they were putting heaters in every room. Hopefully he won’t get too cold tonight!
So, not a great deal to report except that there are small but positive improvements every day and we are counting the days until we can get him home for Christmas.
6 comments:
Watch he don't break no iphone as well.
Stuart x
(Who's feeling thorougly crap tonight and needs a hug)
awww, stuart, here's a hug from me. Trust me, you won't be feeling as crap as some of my flat mates will in the morning. yuck.
great to hear that we'll get back in contact, but not long to wait now!
only 6 days! (as it is now early sunday morning)
see you soon
Holly xxx
oh, and good choice of the daniel craig film x
your feeling crap? I spent 7 hours in the library revising contract law today! snore!
glad to hear he is improving everyday, dad said he was on great form the other day when he saw him!
looking forward to seeing him at christmas!
love Katharine x
ooooh katharine i spent 4 1/2 hours in the library studying contract today and that was enough for me. my exam on contract and delict is tomorrow... :S
i presume paul didnt pull the emergency cord in the loo like stuart did?!!
Laura xxxx
Good to see you're getting better by the day.
Martyn, Pat and Mark, you're doing wonderfully too.
As for losing the phone, don't get an iphone, find the oldest, biggest, heaviest briak of an old mobile you can (Preferably one with a briefcase power pack) so when you leave it somewhere, you know about it PDQ.
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