Canasta....

The morning of the night Phil had his stroke Phil and I were chatting on facebook and we had decided that the following day we would play canasta, we hadn't played for ages and I hadn't been at home for a few weeks. (When Phil was having treatment last year he and I used to play canasta with Mum a lot. It was like our thing).

Anyway on Saturday morning we finally got to play. It wasn't the great game of Canasta ever, but that wasn't really the point. Fun times.

Kris x

Phil is doing pretty well at the moment. Eating and drinking well, sitting up watching movies and playing the Wii and the xbox. We are enjoying some fun times :)
He is also able to check his facebook/email, so if anyone wants to send him a message through those means, please feel free to do so.
The rest of us are doing ok, I'm currently 1 week through a six week nursing placement, staying with Ben, Lovy and their new puppy. Everyone is well.
Thanks all heaps for everything :)
Melinda xx

...how are things?...

well, Melinda and I both aren't in Warragul at the moment, she has a 6 week nursing placement at Monash Med, and I am at college in Lilydale.

But I am hearing good things from home and Phil was texting me tonight, not the one text effort but a conversation. He's still tired and the like, but it is nice that he seems to be comfortable, and able to use and read his phone. Well, that is what i can tell from far off Lilydale anyway...will update the blog after Mel or I are home at the weekend.

Kris xx

another update

Phil's settling back into being at home. He's doing ok, eating and drinking a little more. He was able to sit out of bed for a few hours yesterday which was nice.
He's still really tired, sleeping a lot of the time.
The rest of us are doing ok. I passed both my exams. Ben and Lovy just got a new puppy.
Not totally sure where things are headed or when at the moment, but I suppose we will find out when we get there.
Thanks all,
mel xx

home again

Phil came home this morning :)
He's eating and drinking a little more, hopefully this will continue to improve.
He's really tired but doing ok, and we are all relieved to be back home again-it is much easier.
Currently he's lying in bed listening to a Harry Potter CD. Hopefully it's relaxing.
Thanks again all.
Mel Xx

Prayer point for the day

Spoke to Mum earlier, she said Phil is doing better but please pray that he will drink more.

When I spoke to Mum he was not longer on the drip so he really needs to drink, which isn't easy when he hasn't done for a few days.

Please pray that he will feel thirsty and want to drink :)

Kris

Hey all, just thought I would pop in a quick update on Phil.

He is still in hospital, but on the third floor now (its a crazy maze up there!!) cause there are no free beds on the kids ward.

His nausea has been brought under control and he has just been resting....from the nausea and not drinking he doesn't have heaps of voice. We thought he was asleep today and then someone told a funny story and he smirked and then was grinning from ear to ear. So while he is sleepy/resting his eyes most of the time, it is nice to see him comfortable and not much pain.

He has been given a second syringe driver which is giving him a continuous dose of an anti-nausea drug that I have forgotten the name of.....

That's all I can think of for now.

Melinda got her grad applications in and had her last exam today. Jenny, Melinda and Dad are staying in the city tonight have just gone and seen Wicked for Jenny's birthday.

Thankyou for your prayers. I know for me personally and I'm sure it's the same for my other siblings to that it is rather hard to focus on the looming LARGE assessment tasks at the moment. Please don't pray for people to be generous with extensions, please pray for us to be able to focus to get them done and out of the way :)

Well I had better go sleep so I can actually study!

Love, Kris (took me three goes to type my name correctly!)