Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Tuesday 19th October

Hello everyone

I saw Jerry yesterday and he is still feeling tired. However, he is able to look after himself and walk around, although not too far. He really enjoys relaxing and listening to Radio 4 - especially the plays. He is managing to eat more now, which is good. The hospital appears to be treating his symptoms well. He is not in pain and his blood is tested regularly. They are giving him additional anti-nausea drugs too.

His main difficulty is with eating. It is slow and he often just can't 'get it down' and chewing is a problem. He has now given up all hospital food completely as it just makes him vomit, independent of his other nausea problem so we are taking in food. We have now found a new approach to help him eat which seems to be working. Hopefully, this will allow him to pick up strength through more intake.

Jerry now wants to go home. The hospital has been saying for a while that he could go home but he was not ready himself. However, he will probably now go at the end of this week. Nursing care will be in place there and those of us in York will be doing things for him initially.

His two nieces, Amy and Ann will be visiting next week from Chicago from Weds 27th Oct to Thurs Nov 4th and he is really looking forward to them visiting him.

I'll keep you posted.

Anne x x

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