I thought the tide may have turned on the bad day from yesterday as kp said she had had a good night’s sleep and her first few sentences were typical kp. This changed very quickly however. My first job in the morning is to get her sitting up for breakfast, which I did and within seconds of being sat up, she was very sick. She hadn’t eaten anything overnight, which made the process of vomiting even more tricky and there were a few tears (not though upset, more through the strain of being sick I think).

No breakfast today.

She didn’t feel like a bedbath today either. Not surprising, given the number of moves required for a bedbath, so instead, we both had a sleep. I was snoring again apparently.

When the physio came at 11.15am, he did a good workout on kp and I could see progress in her right foot. Previously, it wasn’t able to get as far as 90′ to the leg, but today, she could manage it. Very important for walking apparently.

She didn’t really want to get into the chair, but together we all persuaded her to give it a try. She managed about 40 minutes. Not bad for an off day. We also persuaded her to have some soup and bread that Marie and I had brought in. Within 10 minutes of it going down, it was back up again

She is on a new drug to fight the infection in her bowel. Apparently, one of the side effects is increased nausea. Well, we can definately confirm that !

Adele came with Marie today but it was very difficult to get any conversation out of kp even for us family. We asked her what she wanted to do about her visitors and she asked that they be put on hold until she is feeling better.

Hopefully that won’t be too far away.

kp is still out of sorts. Not eaten anything all day (that has stayed down). We had a few smiles from her tonight when Adele showed her some phone video footage of her daughter (2 year old Louisa) playing with a spider and shrieking.

Most of the afternoon and evening was spent watching the tennis & sleeping – very little talking.

By 7.15pm, she was fast asleep.