Lots of Thank You's!!

I kept the last blog to the facts of my medical condition but there is way more I want to say!! 

Firstly I wanted to mention all of the staff on the Mayflower Ward at Derriford Hospital.  I have to say that my care was excellent.  From the Doctors to the cleaning staff, they all had their vitally important roles to play which they all performed cheerfully and compassionately.  They were all extremely hard workers and nothings was ever too much trouble even when I could tell they were run off their feet. 

I have already thanked Trev in a previous blog but I want to do so again as he has been a rock and he is also now my career for the next week!  I wonder how long it will be before I am driving him insane!!

Next I would like to thank Dad and Jen who spent three days in Derriford being there for me constantly.  As it was the first three days they had in effect the worst days as I was not at all well at that time. 

Then there is my friend Sharon who works in Derriford Hospital.  She popped in on a regular basis to say hi.  Having "normal" conversations is great as you forget for a short while about all of your problems!

There is then Anita and Richard who came up to Derriford twice to see me.  Anyone coming up from Cornwall is extremely generous as the journey takes two hours each way!  Anita has been there for me through the whole of my illness so deserves a special thank you ;-)

My friend Sharyn came all the way down from Tetbury to see me in hospital also!  Again a journey of about two hours each way!  It was great to catch up as it is difficult to catch up properly with such a distance between you.  I also had a lovely octopus given to me which was made by my god daughter Holly, it was really nice and I bet I was the only person in the hospital who had an octopus as a gift!!

My brother Jon, his fiance Tracy and their children Jasmine and Andrew came up on the Friday to visit mum and I.  The children were so well behaved.  It must have been a little scary for them seeing me with loads of tubes sticking out of my neck!

On Saturday my other brother Andy and his wife Emma along with their new baby Jago came down from Bristol to pick up mum.  They have been amazing as they have spent the week looking after mum.  This has been a huge weight off my mind as I had been worried about who was going to look after mum as in normal circumstances this would be me!!  So a massive thank you goes out to them ;-)

I also need to thank everyone else for their good wishes either through texts, calls, facebook etc.  You have all been brilliant!  My days would have been very long in hospital without them ;-)

Finally the biggest and most important thank you of all, and that is obviously to my wonderful mum!  The operation she has been through for me is not a small one and the recovery will take a fair amount of time.  She says that anyone would do the same but I don't agree, she has been truly amazing!