Update

Tracey is still in isolation at the hospital. This slightly less dramatic than it sounds, her room is in an annex to the main ward and has certain restrictions, no flowers, no outside coats, but there is no limit on visiting, above the usual and there is a regular flow of staff. She has her own room which she is enjoying, with toilet and washing facilities. It is a bit like a hotel. 

She is tired, the virus is wearing her out, the needles are wearing her out. She now has a picc line fitted (look it up) and is getting her antibiotics through it. Her left arm is black and blue from yesterdays needles. Because the picc line is fitted to her left arm and she had the lymph nodes removed from her right arm she is now having her blood pressure taken from leg which she thinks is very strange. Her temperature is still spiking and she is still unwell. The virus remains. We are hoping she will be getting back to normal by Monday or Tuesday and will be home then. We will have to wait and see.

At home we are coping OK. The kids still have to be carried back and forth. Livi was at work at 6:30 and Adam needed to go to Swindon for Futsal. Vaughan is starting rugby on Sunday. Luckily friends have been taking up the slack and I am grateful to them for that.  

A letter of complaint to Wiltshire, who's idea was it to cut the buses between Corsham and Melksham? I went to visit Tracey on Friday and got a ring from Vaughan at 3:15 after school, there are no buses from Corsham to Melksham after 2:05 so I had leave the hospital and pick the boys up as they were threatening to walk the 5 miles home.

Our old friend from Plymouth Carole came round this morning with a friend. She stroked our rabbits and chased a cat. It was lovely to see her again.

I am going to see Trace again tomorrow, probably with Adam. She is feeling a bit down and is only seeing family at the moment. I will update you all again tomorrow.

Chris x