Day +23
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Chloe came and helped out with Bernie for the third time this week, it meant Derek was able to pack up ready for his return to Brighton tomorrow. And that Albie and Stan were able to have a good long time visiting Jesse. As you can see they are very relaxed together!The ward reopened this afternoon. Albie and Stan visited today. It was the first time we had seen them for almost five weeks. It was so lovely. They were so calm, sensitive and caring as well as relaxed and very much themselves. I think they were shocked at the state of Jesse. I suppose I have watched it happen day be day so it has been more gradual. He is so thin, his face has changed drastically. And I hadn't really noticed how little he talks now. He uses sign language a lot, I suppose because it is less effort and I usually understand. I know Albie found that hard, when he left Jesse talked so much sometimes you had to get out of the room in order to escape his endless chatter. Now you are lucky to get a thumbs up or down, a shrug of the shoulder or a nod of the head. I hope that when he feels better he will stop this. We all went out to supper while Jesse slept this evening at a strange Italian restaurant which was in a time warp. It was just like walking back to the 70's. The food was good and it bizarrely felt like we were on holiday!
Lily got back to Glasgow today safely and on time. She was booked on a train going a different route. It must have been a harrowing experience for those poor people. We will miss her a lot but she'll be back in three to four weeks, probably before Jesse is.
Jesse had an OK day. He wasn't sick (until quite a lot just now). They have given him a morphine push (so he can regulate his pain) but so for he has refused to use it. He still has bad diarrhea and some belly cramps. I am going to stop now as I am exhausted. I may continue later,
Lily got back to Glasgow today safely and on time. She was booked on a train going a different route. It must have been a harrowing experience for those poor people. We will miss her a lot but she'll be back in three to four weeks, probably before Jesse is.
Jesse had an OK day. He wasn't sick (until quite a lot just now). They have given him a morphine push (so he can regulate his pain) but so for he has refused to use it. He still has bad diarrhea and some belly cramps. I am going to stop now as I am exhausted. I may continue later,
love
C
Derek was missing from this photo, but I guess someone had to take the photo. It was a little like Picadilly Circus in Jesse's room this evening.
posted by Jesse Richards @ 22:56
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2 Comments:
How lovely to see a pic of so many of you together!
I was cross that I didn't have my camera when a man decided that his goat needed a bath in the sea.. guess that as they don't have baths here, just showers, the sea it had to be. The goat had very big horns so I certainly wouldn't have liked to be in a small shower cubicle with him.
Have just been watching a heron standing very still at the water's edge. He/she was looking for his breakfast - suddenly he/she/it wd move it's head down very fast and come up gobbling a small crab... poor crab, but s'pose the heron has to eat!!
My breakfast was water melon, paypya and pineapple, all of which tasted much better here than in England.
Have you started making a list yet of all your favourite foods, so that when you feel better you can start putting on weight again?
Positive thoughts to all.
G
Sounds as tho some sorta trouble on the railway - anyway glad that Lily got back to Glasgow safely.
Sorry not to write more often, but we are following the blog avidly. Poor Jesse being sick so much, but it will all just be a memory one day and you'll be a chatterbox again, it's hard to believe but true! Lots of love from the Frenchies xxxxx
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