Shellie's Birthday

Last Wednesday (28th May) was Shellie's Birthday, and she, Phil, Harley, & Alison all came to our place for dinner on Tuesday night (27th May). We suprised her with a lovely cake, and again went with the A La Carte Kentucky Fried Chicken. The plastic plates may not have been as classy as the cuisine, but they sure saved on washing up, which suited me just fine LOL!


Phil behaved especially well that night (it was Shellie's night, after all . . . and she did have the knife), and an enjoyable time was had by all.


Sadly, Dad missed out because on the Saturday before (24th May) I had to take him in to hospital. He simply did not have the strength to get off the bed, and he was also very confused and muddled about where he was and what he was doing. Once admitted, he was found to be very dehydrated with a high temperature, possibly caused by a bladder infection. He went on antibiotics for that, and while he was in there they also doubled the strength of his morphine patches. I brought him home on Thursday (29th), and although he was still pretty weak, he's been picking up a bit more each day since then, and is going pretty well at the time of posting this update (4th June).
Mum is finding the going pretty tough, though, as she has a few ulcers on her remaining foot that don't seem to be able to heal, due to really poor circulation, and they are the source of a great deal of pain for her. Her chesty cough has returned as well, and so she has also been having trouble breathing, and is using oxygen at least once a day now to help with that. The doctor came to see her yesterday (2nd June) and prescribed morphine patches for her, as well, so they are now a pain patched pair :)