Sunday night

Guy is now on his latest medication - Cardvilol (or something!) - a beta blocker. We had our 24 hours in Starship getting slowly onto them. guy loved the attention and was treated like the returning hero by the staff on 23B. Apart from a small glitch where he fell off a chair in the play room minutes after having his first dose, bringing nurses and doctors running, he was fine. Turns out he was just being a bit uncordinated (I know, hard to believe of a child of mine...) in his dismount, rather than his blood pressure dropping through the floor.

Never short of an excuse to flirt, Guy managed to find himself a new girlfriend while we were in - 12 month old beautiful Bella from Wellington. Bella has the same condition - cardio myopathy - and has been in Starship since last Thursday. Her family are looking the way I'm sure we did in the first week. I've been in to see them again today, and to drop off some of the meals we still have from all the fab cooking friends have done. It's nice to be able to compare notes and know what they are going through. We are going to keep in touch and form our own support group :)

So, next step will be to increase Guy's drug dose which will require another day in hospital, but the doctors have given us a 'week off' so we're not sure when that will be. This week I'll be following the glitches in my ECG to see what that all means...

Have a good week all x

Beatson's - I have no way of contacting you (keep forgetting to get email address of those who have them) but thank you for the fab package!