Recovering Slowly.... but still in hospital

Its Saturday lunch time and Steve is on the mend! Slowly……
He still is extremely tired and sleep is not easy to get when you’re in this environment. He is still being checked every 15 minutes as his blood pressure is still low. He is at the moment still hooked up to lots of machines and drips, to try and regulate his blood pressure. It is inching up but not quick enough!
Steve is feeling “fed up!” he can’t get comfortable and feels cooped up in this place and still doesn’t really have any kind of appetite.
Nothing quite tastes as it should! But yesterday when he had a high temperature which was so relentless that it was lasting hours and hours I nipped out and bought him a fruit pastilles ice lolly. Steve loved it and it was the first thing he had tried which didn’t taste horrible. He was able to hold it on his lips and helped to make him feel a bit better.
So this morning when I came into see him he wanted another one!!
Well if you have ever been in London City on Saturday morning then you will know it is like a ghost town! Hundreds of shops but all closed! Even Sainsburys which is open until midnight during the week but shut all day on a Saturdayand Sunday!!
I consequently spent the next hour walking around searching the streets for a Fruit Pastilles Ice Lolly. When I finally found a small newsagents that sold ice creams, it didn’t have any! Im beginning to think that Steve and his particular taste for sweet things is becoming some what of a pain!! But then I immediately think of how brave he has been and know this is a small thing if it makes him feel better. In the end I had to settle on getting him a Calipo ice lolly from a small café! Where the owner looked at me like I was a mad! It was after all 9am on an overcast windy Saturday morning.
A new side effect has begun to kick in and it is making all of Steves skin itchy and dry. I can now add official masseuse to my list of duties as I have been rubbing into him some cream given to him by the hospital. I was actually thinking if anyone knows or is a masseuse I would like to have a basic lesson in massage. As it really helped Steve this week to have his joints rubbed! (No smutty comments please!) Ive no idea what Im doing so was thinking a basic lesson in massage could help me to help Steve when he comes in the week after next.

As for the next time he is in, that will be on the 31st August. The doctor has said that he would like for Steve to aim for 6 doses next time. The doctor said to Steve yesterday that he likened Steves attitude to that of a marathon runner. He went on to say, Steve looked like someone who when they got to the fifth mile was completely out of breath but still went on and completed the race. He thought when he saw Steve after the third dose that he wouldn’t be able to get any further but through his strength he made 8 which is a fantastic result.

As soon as Steve gets the go ahead to come home I will post a comment on the blog.