Wherever I lay my hat...

Apologies to all for the lack of an update this month, it’s been rather a crazy few weeks.

This week alone began with a serious case of food poisoning (me), and has involved the first friend or family member to be signed off competent looking after Jovie (Kelly), the first time ever eating solids (Lorna... OK Jovie, not Lorna), and biggest and best of all WE HAVE A HOUSE!!

Not a misprint friends, our wait is finally over and all the criticism of Worcester County Council can be revoked! In 6-8 weeks when the house has had a good spruce up including a brand new kitchen (after the copper was pinched out the old one!) and a new door (after the bailiffs destroyed the old one!!) we will be moving into our first family house together. Jovie will be getting out of hospital, and we will be getting our lives back!!

...and not a moment too bloody soon either. Without the house news this update would have been taking a decidedly more sombre tone, as our frustrations with the nursing staff and the day to day life we have been forced to live have reached boiling point. The various annoyances and constant poor communication we have had to deal with could fill a book, with recent weeks (and I put it down to Jovie’s improvement and our clear desire to get her the Hell out of hospital) have been particularly taxing. Events which taken in isolation really don’t sound like much, but five months down the line I am grateful for not owning a rifle and for not knowing where the nearest clock tower is.

Enough of that though. On more positive news I broke down in floods of tears on the way to work today!! Completely out of the blue and completely un-triggered I drove the familiar M5 stretch this morning bawling my eyes out! Luckily it turned to laughter before I was completely out of control but where it came from is anyone’s guess. Without getting too sappy I should just point out I can’t even explain how proud I am of Lorna & Jovie, and my fingers are so tightly crossed that everything works out with the house right now it’s tricky even typingggg.

As I’m doing this from an actual computer it gives me a rare choice to post an up to date photo for those of you not on facebook and seeing Jovie every day by the power of social network news feeds!

Other than GOING HOME!!! not much else on the horizon of note, lots of trips out now we are cleared to take Jovie out in the car as far afield as we like without a nurse, lots of tasting with solids and lots of planning what we are going to decorate Jovie’s room with! A little further down the road our charity auction is a step closer what with HAVING A HOUSE!! with items on offer including signed football shirts, a holiday in France & spa vouchers. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for more details!!

Dicky tums and missing mums

Well, we are still here.

Another week rolls into another week with very little to report since the last blog in terms of major news. The housing situation remains slow and frustrating, with just one house advertised on the web site we must check on each week, we've bid for it and all so fingers crossed, but optimism is hardly sky high in the Wyse camp right now.

Perhaps mainly due to jovie having to endure a tricky couple of days having picked up a cold or bug of some kind, which knocked her well and truly for six on Monday this week. Lots of sleep and (eventually) some anti biotics which despite giving her the usual upset stomach seem to have put paid to that but the whole situation has done little more than increase our growing hatred and frustration with this place and more than one or two of the professionals we unfortunately are currently relying on.

Unfortunately frustration seems to largely be the name of the game at the moment. Now jovie is clearly going to get out, it seems even harder to cope with everything than when we feared she wouldn't. I guess we just want to be left alone with her, at home where she belongs. Soon, we keep telling ourselves...

Prior to this week we had been full steam ahead with taking jovie out and about, back to the accommodation and generally anywhere other than the hospital, thriving on feeling normal, albeit for just a few hours at a time. With Lorn off for a couple of nights for the big gay wedding in gran canaria I was more than slightly looking forward to spending some time just me and jovie during the day this week. So much for that. But alas there may well be plenty of time for that in the hopefully not too distant future...

I'm in danger of starting to sound like a right miserable git here so some good news to even it out; since the first trip back to Worcester jovie has met even more of her family, with great gran making a second visit and great auntie making her first. The doctors have finally stopped messing about with Jovies feed and have committed to starting her on solids very soon. The preparations for the charity auction are under way, with a holiday, rugby and cricket tickets along with football shirts just a snippet of what will be going under the hammer to raise some dollar for the Ronald McDonald House. Speaking of money, we have also opened up a bank account for jovie so one day when she is older she can get loads of charges, get terrible service and pay to make some city fat cats rich just like the rest of us! She just needs to get a job now and we will sorted...

Will update again soon, hopefully in a better mood and with more news of houses and getting out of here...please!