Its saturday evening and i'm sitting upstairs at mark and ruth's. ruth and her mum and sister are downstairs watching some futuristic flick and coz i am not allowed to talk through it :) i thought i'd come up here and type away.
spend 2 hours with mark this evening. so good to see him laugh (even though it was at his own jokes and not mine!) His chest really hurt as he laughed and his jokes weren't funny but it was special to see him happy. Apart from the obvious weight loss and inevitable weakness, he seems well. major test results come back on monday and they will do another echo thing on his heart to check to see how that is. they might do another transfusion if the haemoglobin in his blood is lower than anticipated (ruth dictated that bit!) There is a whisper of a rumour about him coming home at some point in the not too distant future but 8 days ago we were thinking the same thing so there is no real excitement - more muted hope.
i know that the road to fitness will be a long one with many uphill sections but it did make ruth and me smile the way mark was able to laugh as he attempted to tense his biceps. he was saying that he was upset because, i quote his 'body was perfect before he came into hospital'. hmmmm!
he has, typically, made friends will all the old men on the ward. we walked past one of the men about 3 times in 5 minutes and the obligatory exchange of the 'thumbs-up' sign combined with some little expression of mutual encouragement gave the impression that the two of them had been on this journey together for many a year. i think he's been on this ward for two days. he really is a spreader of joy.
ruth also seems to be doing well. mark knows that her faithful care, compassion and love over the past weeks have helped him through and aided his recovery so much. (ruth dictated that bit as well... not really!)
this is a positive post and that is a fair reflection of how things seemed today. we rejoice in the light we see but know that he is not out of forest yet. (ruth just asked what on earth is mark doing in a forest? funny funny :))
i attach some more photos with comments attached. thanks to Andrea, Rob and Bethany.
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from the lacey's:
I've attached a couple of photos from a trip to Cotswold Farm Park
when Leo was little. Two of the pictures we laughed at from the ground below with comments on him "doing a Michael Jackson....."
The other is Leo grabbing for the strawberries at a picnic that day.
White Tshirts all round..... and yes, it did end up with strawberry
juice all other them both.
The Lacey clan - Andrea, Rob and Bethany
Went to see Mark today. Was a real shock to see him in that environment but i soon saw how he was with his new pals as he "strutted" through the ward to the canteen with us.
It was great to see him and Ruth and i was so glad he was showing the signs of the Mark we know and love, although through the eyes of someone who is still really not well. But as Tim has said, the signs are positive at the moment and he seems to be making some sort of recovery at last. Fingers crossed.
One thing that seems to be forgotten is Marks escape from the ward? I'll let someone else explain but it certainly shows signs of the real Mark we all know. Tim, i think it needs to be documented.
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