Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

I am home, after two days in Rainham. I've had better Christmases, it has to be said. But it could have been worse.

Aunty Eve didn't have a good day yesterday, her breathing was awful, she didn't eat all day and she was very, very sick. She was confined to her bed, pretty much. She couldn't stay awake to talk to you, often she'd ask you something and then drop off mid-reply. This is not like Aunty Eve, as those that have met her will attest. She might be 96, but she's got all her marbles and she can have a perfectly good conversation with you. So I was very worried last night.

Today, she was better, sort of. They've put her on an intravenous drip, to get some fluids into her. Her breathing was much improved, but it's not so good she's off the oxygen yet. Still, she was a lot brighter today. She told me she'd had a spoonful or two of shepherds pie for lunch, even though she didn't want it and it hadn't made her sick. While her mind did wander a lot, and she often repeated herself, there was a notable improvement on yesterday. So I dunno. Apparently, her blood pressure is still high, but it was lower today. And it looks as if they are tackling the no eating issue so I'm a smidge more reassured. But it's going to be a while before she can leave. And then we're going to have to convince her that she will need more outside assistance. This is not going to be easy but I'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

I have to confess, I'm still not entirely convinced she's going to recover from this one, but we'll see. I shall go down again on Sunday and see how she does. I've got permission from the ward sister to visit outside of hours as I have to come down from Hertfordshire, so that's good.

Marion did me proud by way of Christmas dinner. When I got back to Aunty Eve's house yesterday, there's a biggest plate of food ever waiting for me to heat up in the microwave. I'm talking layers, here. Every time I excavated one layer of vegetables, I found a new one underneath :) Fabulous.

Less fabulous was idiot me forgetting to take another book down or remembering to put some R2 dvds in my bag, so yesterday evening was a bit slow. halcyon_shift rang during the evening, so that was good, we had a nice natter. I watched Dr Who - umm. Yeh. It was written by RTD, nuff said. I forgot to watch To The Manor Born, annoyingly, so I hope that's repeated at some point. I whiled away the rest of the evening watching a fuzzy C5 and The Most Shocking Celebrity Moments of the 90's. It passed the time :)

And now I'm home for the evening. *collapses onto sofa* Work tomorrow but thank god it's only a two day week, I am shattered. Now, please excuse me, but I gather my Yuletide fic is awaiting my attention, as is my Sweet Charity fic. Squee!! *scampers off*