Coasting

I've definitely got a feeling that I'm sort of coasting along at the moment. I did finally get to sleep at just after 7am on Monday (the blogging must have been cathartic), and slept til 3pm. At that point my brother brought round my nephew Patrick, and that got me woken-up a bit as we took him on the underground (he loves trains), to a ball-park/soft-play area, and back on a bus. He *always* cheers me up.
Fortunately I slept really well Monday night, and went to work Tuesday morning. I got quite a lot of good work done, and headed off at about 2pm when I was beginning to flag. I went round to my Dad's house and sat and chatted with he and Carole. Fortunately his laryngitis has cleared up as I hadn't seen him for ages as we were all paranoid about me catching it.
I had a lovely surprise though. My step-brother Marc has very recently become a father to a very gorgoues little baby girl, Isla. Fortunately for all of us, Isla's mum was in the area on Tuesday afternoon and popped in to show off Isla and have dinner. I found it just wonderful and Isla and I took to each other very quickly - she dozed off in my arms while I sang to her. Definitely made me feel a bit broody!


I was fairly hopeful that the sleep had normalised a bit, but sadly despite getting to sleep by 10pm that night, I woke up at 2am this morning and didn't go to sleep again til 6:30am, so I missed work again today as I felt all washed-out and dopey again. Still - I did manage to read the entirety of "Drugs and the Liver", which starts off with a great detailed description of the anatomy and functions of the liver, lots about diagnosis of conditions, and finishes off with details about medications and their interactions with various conditions. Very illuminating - I'm sure it will enable me to be a very nit-picking patient next time I'm in hospital! I will definitely be leaving it ostentatiously by my bedside so that the medics know that I'm not clueless...

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow (well, today now). I've got my rescheduled consent-signing session at Kings, and I'm due to meet one of the surgical teams. Its a concrete appointment and it feels a bit like it could be progress. Apart from anything else I'll be able to ask again if they've done any A-type transplants in the past week. Watch this space for a report on how it went.