Bit of bad news this morning. Just rang Karen and she is not feeling very well at all. Hot one minute, cold the next. Sounds like an infection. I do hope that this isn’t the case. We’ll see. She wants me to go in, so I am heading there now.

She’s “ok”. She is feeling very low, and has loads of aches and pains and is hot and cold, but she is “alright”.

I was pleased to see she was sitting up in her chair and was off the morphine driver which is good.

No temperature, so that’s reassuring.

Just heard that Karen is moving to Ward 16 (orthopod ward). Should be there around lunchtime.

What a fidgety visit.

She was on her new Ward (16). Julie (from work) had sent me along with some flowers and Susa and Simon’s had arrived (thanks guys). So, she is all flowered out. She was in no mood to enjoy them really. She couldn’t stop fidgeting. She was dying to get out of the bed. She was wrestling herself all over. It’s like she is going “Cold Turkey” from nicotine withdrawal. I had similar feelings on my first night. Must be so much worse for her with a new hip.

She didn’t enjoy the visit at all and just wanted to go to sleep but was too “all over the place”.

She doesn’t have a temperature (that’s the good news), which infers no infection. She asked the consultant today, what risks were still there and he said “All of them”. So, that’s infection, nerve damage, floppy foot and something else, which I can’t recall.

Some more good news. At the head of each bed, they have a card with “Expected Discharge Date”. Karen’s had been blank until today. When I went in this morning (Ward 12), it said 6th March (next tuesday), which is great. When I went in for the 2pm visit, it was blank, probably ‘cos of the change of wards methinks.

Mum and Dad are coming up tomorrow for the afternoon visit, as are Michelle and Adele. Debs and Jane Burns are coming on the nighttime. If anyone else wants to come along, please feel free. I like curly wurlys. I mean, Karen likes curly wurlies.

On top form at tonight’s visiting.

She greeted Marie and I with an A1 smile, something I haven’t seen in a long time. She was feeling 100% better than earlier today. Still fidgety but not as much. The key difference was her positive attitude. Earlier, she was doom and gloom….

kp:- “I am going to have to start everything from scratch, learning to stand, walk etc…”

Tonight, it was more a case of …..

kp:- “Tomorrow, I’ll be doing some steps with physio (she had forgot that they don’t work on saturday, or that it was friday today) and I should be out by mid-week” (or words to that effect)

Keep it up love