Visiting Friends Is Good.

Brightly Coloured Burdwns.
Brian Kershisnik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kershisnik

From October until December we were involved with Spike’s illness, his eventual diagnosis of spinal cancer on 18th November and euthanasia 18th December.

Then pneumonia on 9^th January, I finally recovered end February beginning March, I did my daily posts, nothing else.

Since I have been spending more time in my wheelchair, and not been using my laptop as much.

It’s enjoyable, sitting in the wheelchair; the downside is that I have not been able to visit blogs.

Last Wednesday when Blogger was unavailable, the thought I might not be able visit my friends was shocking.

So decided to go and visit while I can, I have been enjoying visiting blogs.

Discovered the sad news that Tessa @ Aerial Armadillo died in December, I did not have much contact, the occasional visit and e-mails.

Enough to know Tessa was a wonderful woman, a talented artist, who will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

I also found that Anne’s blog Disabled Not Dead was gone, it had been deleted, which I think is a great shame as it was a great blog, a good resource for MS information.

I hope Anne is doing well, so far I am up to the letter G, lots more blogs to visit, looking forward to saying hello and reading many posts.

Recovering Slowly At Home.

 
Dreaming with Open Eyes
The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art from the Israel Museum.

It has been a very long and tiring week, being ill with a respiratory disease, made it very difficult for me to cough and clear my chest.

Tuesday was very worrying after I coughed for hours without shifting anything and it felt like my chest was being ripped to shreds.

Spat out a little bit of blood, which really worried us, Richie phoned the doctor who came right away.

The doctor had already visited us the day before and diagnosed us as having bronchitis and organised antibiotics from the chemists.

When she got here Tuesday afternoon, I had a temperature, the doctor thought that my bronchitis had become pneumonia and decided to send me to hospital,

But funnily enough by the time I got to the hospital and they took my temperature I no longer had fever.

I think that the prolonged coughing and being so congested caused the rise in the temperature, which peaked with the blood.

It looked more than it really was, a tiny bit of blood goes along way and it was very dramatic and scary.

Luckily it only happened the once, which was more than enough for me and for Richie, the OLVG hospital is a good, with excellent staff who checked me out thoroughly.

When they were satisfied that I was not in need of hospital care they let me go home, I felt like kissing the doctor who sent me home.

I am feeling extremely tired and weak now and look forward to this horrid infection getting better.

Worrrying day!

Herrad had a bad night. She coughed up blood this afternoon so I called the doctor, the bronchitis had developed into pneumonia and she was sent to hospital.  After tests X rays and a million questions she was allowed home. A sinister shadow on the X ray will require more investigation so we will back next week. At the moment she is on good form and catching up with her favourite soap.
Thanks for the kind wishes and messages of support- they mean a lot to us.