In Limbo – back where we started?

An exhausting day, busy doing nothing….. actually, not quite true, but it felt like I didn’t achieve much today anyway.

I was up and about reasonably early with a view to cracking on with the ‘stuff on me list’. I did do some of the things, but the activity was interspersed with conversations with one or two people throughout the day and then, this afternoon, I dozed on the sofa and woke up exhausted, so it feels like a ‘neither here nor there’ day…..

John was put onto a six-bed ward overnight, put onto oxygen and a saline drip. The doctor visited at one in the morning, sometime later and then again this morning. The cancelled CT scan from yesterday is to be re-instated, because the x-ray they took showed signs of infection and they wanted to check what’s what. So that’s on the cards, but he hasn’t actually been wheeled down to radiology for it yet.

There seemed to be no taking account of John’s dizziness/wobbliness, so I took matters into my own hands and emailed his haematology consultant to ask who was co-ordinating John’s care, given that his condition is across a variety of disciplines. Paneesha very kindly phoned me back and said that, really, John’s situation with his blood condition is now stable and it would probably be another discipline to lead on his care. He would, however, get one of the team to go and have a look at John.

He was duly ‘looked at’ and it was suggested that they might transfer him over to the QE into the transplant unit. We’ll see whether that happens. In the meantime, he has been moved from the six-bedder to a single room. That makes it a bit more dignified for him – in that he can stagger to the loo himself, without having to hang onto a nurse…….. I know, any excuse, eh?

Anyhoo…. we shall what happens tomorrow and what they find out. At the moment, they seem to be concentrating on the ol’ man’s chest. Well, who wouldn’t? It’s a very fine chest….tee-hee.

Being of an exhausted persuasion this evening, I thought I’d do the blog early and go to bed early too. So here we are. Looking at the daily stats. I found myself incapable of watching the news today – it seemed to be all dark news items and doom and gloom. Couldn’t cope with it so switched it off.

The scientists seem to be agreeing with me (you heard it here first folks!) that the virus figures look like they are plateauing. I do hope it isn’t a signal that there’ll be an increase in cases. I shall bawl my eyes out if we can’t get together with the family properly soon.

• 6,609 people tested positive for the virus today
• 175 people died in the community in the last 24 hours with the virus
• 69 people died in hospitals with the virus on 10 & 11 March
• The rate of vaccinating people is also slowing, too. At the beginning of February, it was an average of 442k people being vaccinated in a seven-day period. At the beginning of March, it’s down to 280k people being vaccinated in a seven-day period. Not sure what that is all about either. Must do some digging…..

I am still not sure how clever I’ve been at counting the days since lockdown was announced last March, but I think we are on Day 353 (or maybe day 354); and Day 361 since voluntary incarceration.

And, it’s such a long time since the grandchildren have been over properly that heartbreakingly, William asked his Mum and Dad if he could ‘go to Grandma’s house’. They responded with the normal platitudes of ‘soon’ and ‘we’ll do a garden visit’ etc. William, however, said, “Not in the garden, Daddy. I want to go into Grandma’s house.” Me, too, William, me, too – I want everyone in!!!

Take care everyone. God bless.