Stem Cells China Day 12 09.03.07
Not much to report today unfortunately, woke up and just couldn’t lift my head from the pillow, my arms were like two rag dolls, and my head was mildly aching but nothing too bad. The Doctor came and that was it I was ordered to stay in bed and have complete bed rest! The last time I was in bed for a long spell other than sleep was when I was five with chicken pox, so this was going to be hard to grasp. My temperature was running at 38.7 and my skin like a flame thrower! Well I don’t know how they expect me to have complete rest as every five minutes there was either a Doctor or nurse or coordinator by my bedside. I’ve never had so much attention. I was on a constant drip of anti-biotics, saline solution or anti inflammatory. In the end I told Richard to leave the door open which was a good job as the next thing to come into the room was a large air purifier to cleanse the air of any bugs that were about. The attention to care was second to none and everyone concerned for my well being. Then came the bombshell, my Stem Cells had been cancelled that had been planned for Monday because of this damned fever. To say that I was gutted was an understatement and my psyche almost immediately went into negative mode. I knew that I couldn’t afford this to happen and was a constant battle to try and bring myself back. Then click I knew how hard people had worked to get me here and it was up to me not to people down. Richard, well he’s been a brick just being there for absolutely everything, I was just so lucky!
March 10th, 2007
Stem Cells China Day 11 08.03.07
Day 11 in the big brother house:
1. Richard threatens to move to another room because of Ian’s snoring.
2. Ian has found a Chinese author for his forthcoming book on Black Country Expeditions – By Wee Yo Binn
3. Irene the nurse wants to teach Ian Chinese only if Ian can teach Black Country Lingo!!
Got Up this morning feeling absolutely great, no headache and almost wanting to jump out of bed. I moved my left arm to lift myself up; then I thought I can’t do that! But I did, my right arm felt a little better too. I just couldn’t wait to get the day started. Got showered dressed had breakfast in ultra quick time and had loads of time to spare. Then I had the thought pass through my head that I’ve got a full programme of therapies this morning and they’re gonna want to see results! I was in such a great mood that I even got the Chinese dictionary out to learn how to say ‘Good Morning’ in Chinese how sad is that? Everyone I came across I said good morning to and people were in stitches, Richard thought I’d gone demented!!
I went to rehab and said good morning to Judy the therapist who promptly corrected me; I’d got my pronunciation wrong. Well who cares everybody knows there’s nothing better than a Black Country dialect. Judy proceeded to put me on the inversion table and then wanted me to lift a 2kg bar above my head whilst standing. Well I did my best before nearly wrapping the bar around Richard’s neck as he seemed all of a sudden to think he’s the therapist! Went onto my massage which as expected Judy wanted a bit more effort, she really put me through it! Ok I thought at least OT won’t be so bad
March 10th, 2007
