Thursday 15th September 2011

Louis and I have spent the morning at hospice with Helen. In the book I can see she has had some visits from Jo and Shirley since Louis was last here. This morning she is still pretty sleepy and monosyllabic and although she responds to Louis appropriately will only give me a quiet mmm. We have had a big talk with the doctor on duty - about what's going on for her, what's going on for us, what may/may not happen with treatment/without treatment. At this stage plans for Brisbane are suspended until mid next week. We have agreed to let the staff continue as they are - with a course of antibiotics, ongoing clexane etc until then and then re-visit plans at that stage. If she doesn't pick up or worsens then Louis and I both think we would prefer to stop active treatment and see what happens - bearing in mind of course that you never really know what will happen... If she improves a fair bit maybe she can still go to Brisbane.