Arrivals

I'm up at what feels like Satan's idea of torture this morning and winding my way towards Heathrow airport to arrive at around 7.30am.

The trip to the airport is fine, and after a little hanging around at the arrivals lounge my visitor arrives and we then head off into West London so that he can go visit a friend briefly before we head home so we can relax a bit before we go out again, this time to Harlow, to visit our mutual friend who's residing there whilst he tries to recover from a stroke.

We had a good visit at the hospital as a whole troop of friends turned up to entertain my ill friend. We go lots of laughter and smiles and his progression is impressive from the last time I visited. He's now regained movement in his right hand side and is generally much more with it and a lot less tired than he was a fortnight ago, he was also showing us what he could do with his movement and trying desperately to communicate with us - he still can't talk but I think that is mainly due to the tracheotomy that he still has. I have to say though I think I might nick name him "slimer" from now on since he landed a big flob of goo on me from 8 feet away when he had a bit of a coughing fit!

After we've been chucked out from the hospital we then head over to another friends house where we generally sit around, have a few drinks and the like and catch up on old times, and I finally meander to bed at around 2 am.

Needless to say, I'm out like a light.

Posted by Abi on the April 15, 2006 9:23 PM