Tuesday 1st January 2008

Happy New Year to everyone!
Here’s hoping the 2008 is a better year for us all.

Tuesday
Slept in till 11 since we had such a late night yesterday. Didn’t do much during the day as we were both tired from the unaccustomed late night and the knowledge that we have to get up at about 6am tomorrow to go to the Marsden.

Phil has had a bad back and shoulders for quite a while and I’ve been threatening to give him some massage but we just haven’t got around to it. Today we actually set up the massage couch and I did a half hour on his back. I’ll need to do some practice but it went better than I was expecting so we’ll have to wait and see if it helps. It was interesting if a little frustrating to work around the PICC line on my left arm and will take some practice but it was great to do a little therapy work at last!

Monday
We were invited to a New Year party by our friend Sam, some other friends drove down from Oxford and stayed overnight with us so we went off to Sam’s together. There were only 6 of us in the end and a beautiful Great Dane but we had a really good time and didn’t leave till well after 2.

Sam laid on a fantastic spread and we had a great time without getting too drunk.

Sunday
Weather was cold but bright, did out shopping then had a walk in Wat Tyler Park, I really enjoyed it but had to stop after ½ an hour as I was coughing a lot because of the cold air.

Later we dropped in on Dad and made sure he was feeling better and then had a quiet evening at home.

Saturday
Had a lovely hour long walk at the reservoir, I’d given Phil a step meter for one of his stocking fillers so we could tell that it was about 3.5 kilometres that we had walked.

In the afternoon we had a bit of a scare as Dad phoned in some distress as he’d got confused about his medication. I spent some time talking to him and managed to calm him down and later the carer called to tell me he was fine.

Friday
They let Dad out of hospital today, we did some shopping for him and then went over to his house to put the heating on and made sure it was all warm and welcoming. They had told us that he was being dischared just after noon but it was after 4pm that he got home chilled to the bone so we warmed him up with some soup and made sure he was okay before we left.

Thursday
Quiet day after the festivities. We did a bit of shopping and some tidying but mostly just relaxed.