The Lishman Journal – Day 34

Well dear readers, another weekend has been and gone.  It was fairly quiet as is usual in any hospital, except for a couple of notable exceptions.  Leoni decided to liven up proceedings on Saturday by having a couple of seizures whilst sliding under the table.  This lead to a somewhat poor initial response by the staff member and I intervened to ease her discomfort.  This has now been resolved, hopefully satisfactorily by a little bit of “further education” (and a very irate and caring mum on Sunday)J.  Thankfully this is a rare occurrence and more an individual’s issue than a general one.  So a poorly Leoni was pampered and loved by mum on Sunday and was getting over things when she realized how painful her toe was getting.  Now this goes back a few weeks to when she caught her dropped iPad using her big toe, (obviously better to catch it than it getting damaged hitting the hard floor, don’t you think?).  One blackened toenail was then stood upon by a nurse helping her up after her seizure, thus damaging the nail a little more.  Her toe is now somewhat battered and bruised and after asking for a bandage to protect it, instead was whisked off to A&E (just over the road in Kings) whereupon it was declared a danger zone due to infection!  She now has 4 horse-sized pills to take daily! NOT a happy little LeoniJ; but a big white padded dressing shows of her foot delightfully.

An unfortunate weekend also for Annie, who had to stay connected to her 23 or so wires until this morning and is suffering from lack of showers, (ladies at least will be fully away of what 8 days without one makes one feel like) and uncomfortable areas of skin where the sensors were detached using nail polish remover! A long hot shower and luxurious hair wash await methinks!  Back home to see little one soon too J.

I’m sure there was other notable happenings also, but my memory has failed me totally and no-one else in here has a better one! J

With 3 patients home for the weekend, Sunday was a day of relative calm and surprisingly decent food!!!  We even had roast turkey, stuffing, roasties and Yorkshire pudding (YES Yorkshire pudding!).  Apparently that is the done thing now, but I come from an era when they went only with roast beef!

And so Monday dawned bright and early……………unfortunately my back has become very painful after the 6 tummy strengthening exercises I did last week with my physio, (well, can’t think of any other reason!)

We have 2 new members to our community arrived today.  One, another David(2), has taken over the room vacated by Francis and a lady we have yet to see.  Unfortunately David(2) has already made an impact he would rather not have……..on the door, by falling and belting it with his head, so is currently over in A&E already, not 10 hours in to his stay!  Could be a regular feature apparently as he too has FND with non-epileptic seizures, only he has been known to go walk-about during one!!!

AHAH, just been reminded, Sunday tends to be a laundry day and this Sunday we ran out of washing powder!!!!!  In actual fact, it must have run out before because I was first in there and the box was empty.  After a fruitless search through store cupboards by the staff, I ended up scrapping the dried up stuff from the bottom and combining it with what had been left congealed in the tray!  Sounds rough, but I did get clean clothes! J.  It took a trip to the local store to buy a small box to tide the unit over until more stock can be ordered.  Talking of stock though, our lovely kitchen lady Linda, went through her stock today and threw out FOUR BOXES of out of date HP sauce sachets!!!!  And yet we can’t have a cooked breakfast, even once at a weekend because of the cost.  Hmmmmm, definitely one for the Community Meeting……………which didn’t take place today, despite us being urged to attend as it was the first to be held on a Monday, because no-one knew who had actually organised for it to be held!!!!  The person it was thought to be was already engaged in a regular “goal setting” meeting.  And so the mystery thickens, yet I shall not let it rest as I postponed my physio session especially to attend it!!! J

Tomorrow holds interest as I am due my postponed physio session, followed immediately by CBT!  And all before lunch J.  Wednesday shall bring my Nail Bar attendance, more to come on that J.

We are sitting here waiting for our supper of toast and tea, whinging and whining as usual……………fairly certain now this is part of our therapy where we dump all the niggly aggravations and exasperations on each other and get them out of our system?

So clattering in the kitchen heralds supper is a-coming and time to post this diatribe.

Here’s hoping you’ve all had a reasonable day, (if you haven't please don't bother moaning to me coz you'll get no sympathy here tonight, my back is too painful!) :-) 

Seize ya all soon folks XX