Chris and the Queen of Hickman's find a new position

Yes folks as anne was trying to get blood out of a stone This morning I was twisting around to show her the hicman's site. I was lifting the dressing and turning my head with both arms up and she said hold it right there. so I gave blood from the larger red line for the first time in over a week. She is my new hero.Woohoo!

I'm in the hospital but of course that is not going to plan. a patient that has been out came back today with a temperature so she took my bed. I;m not going home as I suggested, I am going into a shared room for a night. That bed was not vacated until late so had to be made up and we were waiting in a tiny anti room for a coupple of hours. I got in the room ans Joyce and Jo left at about 6:45. I'm down at the Net Kiosk typing this up.

Tomorrow I get to suck up three litres of saline in less that that number of hours and I have to pee out 5 litres. then they can start the malfluine. Can somebody that is a math wiz (not the ironic term considering the circumstances) please sdo the sums for me becuase I can't seem to shake (nother ironic term) the idea that this isn't going to end well. I can see what I'm going to be doing all morning while at the same time moving rooms and trying to nest in the new room Talk about marking out my new territory.

I wanted to tel you all that I have plans for how I can keep up shile int the hospital. I'm going to try to get up a shower each day and get dressed even if it's just back to tracki-dacks(cdn:sweats). I will blog when I can and walk the halls. Our friend Sue who started when I should have. was out for part day today ,gets a day pass tomorrow ans is out Thursday by the way Go on her. Anyway she was doing three turns three time a day so I'm going to work to that. Because I have this plan I have brought way to many clothes. Which have to stay in the many many bags that are filling my half a room! Look I really need my entertainment toys. Bluey think I may be just a tad grumpy if I don't get fully entertained. The good news is with the right equipment I can keep myself entertained for hours.....I mean ipod, TV, videos and computer!

Yesterday at the day clinic our new friend francesa said "yes she know a woman in Sydney that helps with Clydesdales every year at the show" Jo says " it wouldn't be maureen would it. Fran and her are mates and Jo has seen maureen a couple times with a bredder she knows in Sydney. talk about 6 degrees of separation!

Jo cooler her heals this afternoon reading the guide to what ai can and can't do after I get out. This kind of information in Jo's hands is never goo, for me anyway. she just ruled out breathing as I might get conaminants....oh and eating just got cut because of micro organism. She is taking some of the fun out.

Joyce, Jo and I visited with Sue for quite a while and she was looking good. Had a bit less hair than when I saw her just before she started on the 9th of February, but looking good and really excited about getting out.

more later
Chris