Home Sweet Home . . .

Apologies to the girls from S. Thomas' group in Bury who visited the GPQ Exhibition at Bilsborrow yesterday.  I promised to post pics last night. 

Will post more pics and comments re your charity and efforts tomorrow. 

You can appreciate that it hasn't been an easy 24 hours and quilting doesn't loom large when faced with Stephen's problem.

It was truly lovely to see you - wot a happy bunch -  BUT I have confession to make. I dropped the paper, on which you wrote your names, into the Visitors Choice Box by mistake -  in a hurry to get away to the hospital.

Perhaps you'll identify yourselves by colour of your frocks!  Please.

Brought Stephen home from hospital this evening. Nothing else can be done for him at hospital. His oncologist said he might as well be nursed in the comfort of his own home as they now think the fevers are linked to his cancer - not an infection from the Hickman Line as previously thought.

He looked pale and was shivering when we arrived home. Wore a T-shirt, sweater, jacket and was covered with 2 blankets but still cold.  Has lost weight. Looks 'thin.'

Put the CH on full blast and finally lit the fire.    He gradually warmed up and is now in bed.

I made up his bed with a plastic mattress protector covered by 3 layers of sheets to prevent that horrible slippery feeling one experiences in hospital beds.  

This is to protect the mattress when he has one of his fevers - high temperature (at times been 42.2ºC) followed by rigor and then sweating to a point where his nightclothes and bed clothes become drenched and have to be changed. He is easy for an hour or so before the pattern starts all over again.  

Drugs have been stopped apart from 2 paracetamols when his temperature starts to rise and 2 steroid tablets daily (not sure what they are supposed to do.)

It's really a case of wait and see  - tho' he may have some chemo to stop the fevers.

He may feel a bit better tomorrow  -  now he's home  -  fingers crossed. . . . .