Saturday 26th December

Helen felt tired after our outing yesterday and more shaky than usual - she still felt happy to have gone though. Today her sodium has risen to 127, her Hb remains in the 90s and they are going to give her a blood transfusion later today. Poor little arms with all these frequent canulas and blood tests. Still hopefully it will improve her feeling of wellbeing a bit. She remains in bed 889 - ward 8 south and I would say will be in at least until next weekend and perhaps longer.

Louis has gone away from a few nights break and when he returns I am planning to go from Wednesday through to next Saturday. It is a good time for people to visit in many ways - we are finding it hard to do alone at present and Helen will benefit from company and mental stimulation even though she feels fearful of it. She does not want to use her mobile at all at present so you can't really call her but could try through the hospital switch. Otherwise I think just dropping in is ok and play it by ear. She really isn't doing much there so she's likely to be just sitting in bed. As I have said before flowers are not really an option as it is a chemo ward.

This afternoon she and I had a good few hours together with some meaningful conversation.

She had tried a little reading for the first time in ages but still feels her brain is not working properly and it was hard to enjoy. Still - great that she even felt like trying...