Updates that Sarah has posted today from her blackberry but sadly they have been posted to the wrong place and nobody will see them. I have typed them from my ipad to Sarah's laptop exactly as written for you all to read. So don't blame the spelling mistakes on me this time!!

28 June
06:57
Good morning all. I can undersand you talking and I can talk bac'. Probs with words and memory within this, but basically on form. I could not ask for more. My LHS is swollen duing night. Doc will ome to look t it. I think it is expected part of process.
So all is in order :).:)
Arah xxxxxxx

16.27
This is Sarah and my progress today.
Throughout the day I have had bloodpressure tests. Pulse rate and temperature- al taken a number of times and recorded in a yellow A4 file.
I was taken for an MRI scan at 830. A porter came to push me in a chair to the unit. The unit seemed to be on opposite side of hospital. Another man came with us in wheelchair- he had a big tape up the bck of his head and told me that they had removed 'an egg'.
At the unit, I went in first. Same as previous scanner. Instruction were to lie still and don't move. These make me laugh because I am not able to move about!!
The scanner is very noisy. I have ear plugs. They are several phases. The end phases are with die, so that they can see everything.

17:58
Drugs; my drug regime is being amended. The steroids have been cut for four every morning and four every night TO three. I have a tablet added to protect me against the effect of the steroids- they would damage my gut. Added- paracetemol: added - two to help me pooh! Nothing going down there yet. Love S xx

20:32
After the MRI scan, I was pushed out into the corridor, to wait for a porter to take me back to my ward. I was seated in a corner waiting room. Two people arrived, a man and woman. I waited.
I waited. I asked the man to get me a drink of water. Staff had to check this was ok, and a glass was brought to me. I waited. I asked the man to tell reception that I was waiting. I waited.
The other young man emerged through the doors, with a porter, and was taken back to the ward. I argued with the porter, asking him to take me first, but he was following computer instructions.
A radiographer appeared through the door. I asked him to take me back. I didn't care how I got back- just take me back.
He refused (on the grounds of being a radiographer),
Eventually, a porter appeared. I was returned to my ward having missed breakfast, missed bed baths, missed ordering my lunch (tricky cos I am veggie). When I got back I was very distressed, as you could imagine.
All solved with a talk, an air fan and a 'sleep in a breeze'.
Not a good morning today!


Sarah finds visiting exhausting and that is with us going in only one at a time and for a short while.
Sarah can receive BLOGs emails texts facebook etc.  She cannot read them all nor reply, but appreciates any that she sees. Keep up the messages- it really helps.

Thank you and good night xx