Doing OK

Things finally seem to be improving, albeit slowly.

Holly still has a line infection but the infection markers in her blood are reducing slowly. This means the anti-biotics are doing their thing, this is noticeable in the fact that Holly looks and feels quite a bit better.

We have also found out that Holly has caught the dreaded Norovirus bug (winter sickness and diarrhoea bug). This means that Holly is on barrier nursing and isn't allowed out of her room. Not too much of a problem at the moment as she doesn't feel like moving very far. I was quite upset when I found out as I just keep thinking, what else???

She is slowly managing to eat although her mouth is still very sore. She is really trying as she knows that the next step will be the dreaded nose (NG) tube. She is adamant that she won't have one, but if the doctors decide that she has to have one then she must.

I managed a night at home last night for my birthday. We had a lovely night but it wasn't the same without Holly. I was looking forward to a morning without any doctors but ended up in the local surgery at 8.30am to get Harry some eye drops.

There are quite a few old faces on ward this week so it has been nice to catch up and chat, Mick is also back so Holly has been able to pick and choose what she wants to eat (or not eat).

A big thank you to Lynne and Steve for the lovely balloons they sent Holly. This has been a long miserable stint in hospital and its so nice to know that people are thinking of her.