At about 9.30am I got up and no sooner had I left the bedroom, than Abbie jumped out of the bedroom she was sharing with her mam. She had been awake for “hours” apparently and was keen to be kept amused.

Cue Diversions !! I put the computer on, and got the TV onto CBeebies and then I was safe to make my exit walking the dogs !

When I got back, Adele was up and I got kp up. kp was in a lot of pain today . I had woken kp up and put the new patch on before dog walking because I felt the pain was on the way after last night. So, when kp got up for good, I gave her a bath and a long soak as that has proven to help on previous occasions. We then had breakfast. Abbie was keen to write her own blog of last night (published already) and was amazed at her work being on t’internet.

kp was feeling so full of aches and pains that we booked a Doctor’s appointment for the afternoon and to avoid having to deal with the pain, she we went for a lie-down until 4pm. I joined her.

The Doctor wasn’t our usual one, but he turned out to be really good, but also dropped a bit of a bombshell on Karen. On the good front, he came up with a novel fix for Karen’s pain. The patches Karen is on don’t come in any larger sizes than 100ug, and the pain always seems to be worse on the last day of the 3-day patch cycle. So he suggested putting Karen on 2 patches. On Day One, we apply the 100ug patch and on Day 3, we apply the additional 25ug patch. Day 4 sees the new 100ug patch and Day 6 the new 25ug patch. It should work a treat !!!

Great News ! And then the bombshell.

kp asked him how long do people normally take to recover from a stroke. Well, in my head, by the end of 2 years, the amount of recovery shown is normally what you end up with, sometimes this can be as long as 3 years.

The Doctor said……

Doctor :- “Normally after 1 year, the recovery you have is what you are left with…”

He went on to say….

Doctor :- “So, I suspect what you have recovered now is about what you are going to get.”

He said this in a very nice way, btw, not as abruptly as this reads back !

Yikes. I wasn’t ready for that curveball. I was immediately thinking of kp and the fact that this would hit her like a brick !! But I kept my cool.

On the way out, she asked me to explain the patch cycle to her and made no reference to the bombshell news.

Deep inside, I think Karen feels she is going to get full recovery and be 100% the old kp physically (and probably mentally). Now is not the right time to discuss the fact it may only be 90% (or less).

By the time we had got to the chemist, kp had started to question the bombshell news. Still no tears though.

When we got home, there were still no tears, but I could tell she was thinking about it.

As I write this blog entry, tea is on the go and kp is watching “Deal or No Deal” and we haven’t had any tears, but knowing Karen, sometime in the next day or so, this will hit her and hit her hard and I fear this is going to be the “Biggie” upset wise.

Fingers crossed that she doesn’t get too upset.