>Sorry folks, didn't get around to doing an update
>when I got home last night.
>
>In fact I fell asleep in the chair when I got home
>at midnight, woke up about 04:30 and went to bed,
>having forgotten to lock the front door.
>
>I had planned to go to Edinburgh as soon as I finished work,
>but had to take Sirius to the vet first. He has this habit
>of nibbling his feet when he is anxious about anything, and
>yesterday he was hirpling badly - after only two days of
>Bill being absent - so at this rate he will be unable to walk
>by the time Bill gets home. Anyhow, the vet has prescribed
>Valium for him, so we'll see how things go.
>
>We (Marianne and I) got to the hospital an hour before
>the end of visiting time, but we weren't planning to stay
>for long, so that was fine. Bill looked tired - but we
>discovered that his son been in just before we arrived,
>and he'd stayed for an hour, which may have explained the
>tiredness...
>
>Bill couldn't find one of his hearing aids, so we spent some
>time searching for it - only to discover after half an hour's
>searching that is was still in his ear, but switched off!
>Without the aids, he couldn't hear the bleeper on the morphine
>dispoenser, so he was pretty 'spaced out'. He'll never
>believe me when I tell him... His voice is very hoarse, and
>he was speaking very quietly, so it was difficult to catch
>what he was saying... He has four drains in the wound, and
>can't move without help. The nurses had placed him in a chair,
>heaven knows how long he had been sitting there - but he looked
>as if he needed to be in bed, where he could have a sleep...
>
>He expects to get him around the middle of next week - but the
>man in the next bed has been in for seven weeks, having caught
>an infection (I'd take a guess at MRSA, but Bill didn't know
>for sure). Hardly surprising, because the dispensers of
>anti-biotic gel which we are cautioned to use, were nowhere in
>evidence. Marianne and I had washed our hands when we entered
>the hospital, but I wonder how many people don't bother?