Archive | June, 2014

Hospital Update

13 Jun

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Man of steel for a third time, but this time only 26 metal staples and now OUT of hospital!

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After my perky wake up on Tuesday, Sue visited again with mum on Wednesday to visit a less perky me. Thursday dad came along with my big sister Claire and her husband Noel from Ireland and I was starting to feel more myself.

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Thursday with dad and sister Claire

It’s now Friday evening and I’ve been told to go home!!!!

Keith and Maurice came to visit and I was told I could come home, so they packed me up and Maurice bought me home on the train before the evening rush hour and Keith waited on the ward to collect my drugs to bring home.

As for my body and the operation, I’m so thankful  and grateful to the medial team who have managed to remove all the new growth whilst not causing too much further damage to my neck. I do seem to have a bit a of odd smile as one of the nerve that controls my mouth has been damaged, my swallowing is a little bit worst, but hopefully this is improve as some of the swelling does down in my neck, but on the whole I have come through this new operations without too much further damage or changes to body and although tried at the moment, its doesn’t feel as bad as it did first time around.

I’m now enjoying being at home and just being thankful and grateful for all the love, support and prayers at this time for all of you.

Thanks Neil

Operation Day

11 Jun

Hello to all you Neil watchers. Now let’s see if I can remember how to do this! As many of you have picked up from Neil’s last blog we found out about 3 weeks ago that a scan had shown up 2 new lumps in the neck, in the same region as the tumour that was taken out in November. As you can imagine this was a real blow for us all, particularly as Neil was making such good progress and beginning to look at returning to work.

He has had the operation today, not as long as before, but still 6 hours, so long enough. It seems to have gone really well. Although he is in ICU, this is likely to only be for tonight. He is bright and perky, he even phoned home at 6.30 and was able to speak to the children. I have been able to see him tonight and he his much more his usual cheerful self, which is a great relief. His arm is still working and apart from a bit of a wonky smile everything else appears to be working normally. It’s still early days, but the consultant can’t see any reason why his recovery shouldn’t be quite quick. I’m not sure how long he will be in hospital, but hopefully only  a few days.

So, thanks again go to everyone who is supporting us and in particular all those who have been fasting and praying. A victory for God I’d say! I’m a bit shattered and blogging on the train on the way home from the hospital, looking forward to a better nights sleep. Will blog again soon.

Love Sue x

Update June 2014

5 Jun

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It’s now June and steady progress has been made and I have been thinking about working again, as my strength and fitness has been improving. I have been back in contact with may old friends and colleagues to see if there was any work I could help them with and I had a very positive response and even had to turn down a couple of days work as I had hospital appointments and then it was the half term holiday break and we as a family joined the Heath family for a couple of days break down in Wadebridge, Cornwall. This was good time away together cycling and walking and laughing with each other.

But quite a lot can happen in a month. I mentioned earlier that I had a couple of hospital appointments and one of these was an MRI scan, which unfortunately has raised some issues that need to be sorted and I will now need to have a further operation which will be taking place on Tuesday 10 June.

This has been a very hard issue to come to terms with and I can’t say I’m happy about this, but it needs to be done, it is also gonna knock me back quite a bit from the progress I had already been making in trying to getting back to work and some sort of normal family life. It also doesn’t help that Dan in the middle of his A level exams and Sophy is in the middle of her GCSEs at the moment and Sue is in the middle of getting 30 school reports for the class and Amy has done any test this year and is back in normal lessons. So please continue to prayer for all f us at this time and I will hopefully update you again in the next week or so.

Again I’ve had the support and prayers of so many friends. Thank you as this has helped get us as a family this far.

Thanks Neil

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