Having just arrived home from paris with my mum, yazz is typing this blogg for me as I do not have another email in me.
We arrived yesterday afternoon to find Barrie in a similar state to how he has been since his operation. He is still having difficulties eating anything more that a few mouthfuls of food. Bearing in mind how disgusting the food is at the hospital this is probably not such a bad thing as starvation is probably a better option than being poisoned!
The fact of the matter is that having not eaten solid food for over a three month period Barries stomach has shrunk so much that he only handle very small amounts of food. At least during this visit the small amounts that he was eating was not causing him to vomit.
In the afternoon during our visit we were joined by Rene and we all enjoyed a few good old stories from the good old days. We stayed at the hospital until 8.30 and having re instated Barries television subscription we at least left him with the prospect with watching some champions league football which is about as good as it gets on a French Tv channel.
We arrived today with Barrie in a very sad, upset and in an emotional state of mind. This had all been brought on by an earlier visit of an extremely insensitive doctor who came into his room and explained that they could do nothing further for Barrie and they wanted him out of his room as soon as possible. It was as if the doctor was insinuating that Barrie would be thrown out onto the street which of course would never be the case but this is how it seemed to poor old Dad. Within moments of hearing about the insensitive of this 'nasty piece of work' doctor I left the room and quickly tracked down the whereabouts of this monster. Having confronted him regarding the earlier incident I wanted to turn him into a patient however diplomacy got the better of me and having expressed my thoughts about his inappropriate comments we came to an arrangement with each other on how to resolve both of our problems. His was that he wanted Barries bed back, ours was that we no longer wanted Barrie subjected to this kind of treatment for a second more than necessary. The outcome of the next hour of negotiations resulted in the probability that Barrie will be Transported back to the UK by road ambulance either on monday or wednesday of next week. We are now just waiting for the confirmation of Steve Hanson that there will be a bed available at St. Thomas's hospital in London.
Paul is on the way out tomorrow had will hold the fort over the weekend and then next week, hopefully Dad will be on his way back to UK at last!!!
Max