28th May - Day 8 - Moved Rooms

Well I spent a long time with Jon today and they were right, he is back to his old self again, the flu symptoms have gone, they have warned that over the next few days he may go downhill again as his white blood cell count has gone down and his body will struggle to fight any infections.

Jon's Dad and brother visited him today with lots of great books, he will be kept busy for months with those, thank you. Was nice to sit in the day room and be in the comfy chairs, shame its Jon's last chance to go in there for a while.

He is on a cooked food only diet, he is allowed chocolate and crisps if he eats them as soon as they are opened. He can have small bottles of drink but again only if they get drunk immediatly.He isnt allowed bottled water though.. strange but true. No nuts or bread or salad. He can have fruit but only if he peels the skin off the fruit himself,(so no grapes or he will be peeling for hours).

Finally he has been moved back to a positive pressure isolation room, yay he has a landline phone (please call Lizz if you would like this phone number), also back to having the fridge and exercise bike and more cupboard space, he's not looking foward to the isolation but its better in the new room than the old ward room.

They have asked that not too much is brought in to Jon, as the room has to stay as clean as possible, so just bringing yourself and a smile and a joke will be plenty. The odd bag of sweets if he starts to run out but at the min he has quite a few packets to keep us... I mean him going.

Its good to see him up and about out of bed again, keep going Jon your doing fantastic.