20. The bees knees

Day 6

It's the bees knees, the dogs danglies, the mutts nuts and the horses hooves (I made that one up!).  I've just tucked into the scrummiest cupcake ever and my goodness it was delicious, just what the doctor ordered. I was delivered a box of cupcakes yesterday in a whole variety of flavours, with glittery sparkly icing on the top and little curly wurly curls,  but can you guess which one it was that jumped out at me........the carrot cake one with a nice big orange carrot on the top (I'm not telling you porkies!).  It was marvellous, the winner by a nose.  The strawberry one was pipped at the post and came a very close second and Andy polished of the scrummy chocolate cake in one fell swoop (well maybe two) whilst visiting me in preparation for his very well deserved night out with his friends in Guildford.  The remaining two I have shared with the nurses who have just had to deal with an "aggressive relative". I really felt for them and once security had come down to check all was ok I crept out of my room with what I could offer to console them.  They were eternally gratefull and did mention something about a gin or vodka being required.  I didn't dare mention that the cake fairy  had actually brought in a bottle of beer too, I thought they might evict me!  The beer is safefully packed for when I get home and I shall enjoy when I'm back in my own paddock so to speak;-)


It's been a whirlwind two days of visitors, increasing fuzzy headiness and sleepiness.  To sum it up, Morrocco Mole has down graded his jack hammer but is still making occassional escape attempts so the thumping headaches have lessened.  I have to say they did bring me to tears on nights 3 & 4 but I think that was due to tiredness too. 

I can also report that the river Thames is off flood alert and has resumed normal levels. Even better than that, no more weeing into cardboard cowboy hats for me yeehaa!  Perhaps I should suggest breeding Dobbin with a Camel next time, that might solve the wee problem.

I've managed to get some fresh air and can go for a meander outside now I'm not hooked up to Stan much, infact I only got hooked up for 30mins today whilst they shoved me full of steroids (methylprednisilone to be precise).  I didn't need platelets today which was a total result, platelet count was 54 (normal is 150-400) but for me that's super duper, the highest mine has been since this whole milarky started is 24. 

I sat on the bench outside in the sun for a little bit earlier and it was very surreal.  Usually the hospital is buzzing with loads of people passing, limping, hobbling etc etc (I have come to the conclusion gammy legs seem to be the biggest inury round here just now!) but come the weekend it turns into a ghost town.  It was so quiet and peacefull. I decided that I might see something a bit more exciting over the other side of the hospital at A&E (nothing too terrible, just a child with a saucepan stuck on it's head or something like that), but even that was quiet so I checked out the bikes which conveniently park opposite that entrance, but even that was a bit dull today, just a Suzuki Bandit 1250s.  

My fuzzi headiness and memory (or lack of) is definately worse today, yikes!  I shall shortly be on a par with Dory the forgetfull (but loveable!) fish in Finding Nemo.  Everything feels a bit surreal, it's like i've been freeze framed in a film and everything else continues on round about me while I'm on pause.

In my room there is a very comfy chair, it's not any old chair, it's so special it's even got it's own remote control so you can go from fully lying down to fully standing up with putting in precisely zero effort (well, push your thumb on a  button effort).  It's great fun and uber comfy.  The problem with my chair though, is that occassionally it seems to have a mind of it's own.  At the most inopportune moments I suddenly find myself being whizzed up or down, foot rest whizzing out or in unexpectedly.  The first time was slightly alarming, I found myself sitting quite happily one minute then being completely horizontal the next and stuck.  I thought there was a poltergeist at work but now I'm used to it and as usual it's got nothing to do with a poltergeist or the chair being wonky, it's me!  I had put the laptop down on the control, the control is supersensitive and the slightest touch sends it into operation so every time something inadvertantly touches it away it goes, and you never know quite which was it's going to go! Never a dull moment.

Well, can you believe it's taken me nearly 4 hours just to write this and now it's time for bed. I know this blog is a bit disjointed today, no doubt tomorrow's will be even worse but hey ho. I think they said maybe just 5 more days of IV steroids which is what's befuddling my brain. Goodness knows what gobbildygook I'll be writing by then!

ps whilst I remember!!!  Huge thankyou for everyones messages, texts, emails, cards, magazines, smelly things (in a nice way ), chocolates, cakes, polos, milkshakes, hot choccies, i tune thingies, grapes, biscuits, stickers, remote controls, flowers and balloons, but most of all for thinking of me.  It means the world. x