I slept but was awake at 3am, up and made a cup of tea, can’t stay in bed “thinking”!
Instead I made a long list of “to do’s” today. Things like cancelling the taxi that was taking us to the airport for Madeira, also cancelling the special Afternoon Tea at Reids Palace Hotel for our anniversary, trying to find someone who would like our tickets for “The Crown Jewels” at the theatre next week, free of course but a shame to waste them, cancelling the dog sitter, the list goes on!! The kindness of Lea and Jaye (dog sitters) , they said if Ellie needed looking after they would have her free of charge, bless them!
I took my phone back to the phone shop as if I had to use the keypad during a call, the screen went blank, also I can no longer use my fingerprint. He couldn’t get that to work but I told him as long as I could get in with the code it didn’t matter as long as he has fixed the rest.
Then I drove to Lou and Rhys’ as I hadn’t sent enough dog food for Ellie, so took some more. I have decided I am bringing her home tomorrow night.
Back to the hospital and Mal was very “down” and just wanted to sleep. I sat holding his hand and later he text me to say his blood pressure had gone right down. The kidney consultant came round, checked all his charts and said the number was now 400, so even more improvement and decided there won’t be any dialysis. Mal is definitely the weakest on the ward and two other patients were sent home on Friday.
At the moment he really isn’t up for visitors and told me to “sort it out”, so tried to tell his sons to wait a while as his body gains more strength and repairs. This has been major trauma for his body.
It’s tiring just sitting in the hospital and when eventually I did leave, travelled home exhausted. Our neighbour Jeanette popped in to see how Mal is.
All the work Mal did for the Jubilee Centre but in the end I had to explain he was in hospital and I had to take him off the trustees group chat as night and day his phone was bleeping. Have any of them been in touch to see how he is?? Not one! True friends…..LOL! As they say, it is times like this you find out who your friends are.