Thursday 11-03-2010

Wooo hooo !! 19 days in and we have made it to Shenton Park =)

Just before 9am, the girls and I were on the phone to Simon, doing our normal ritual of calling to say good morning, which has been happening since the girls were born.
As we spoke, they interrupted Simon to tell him he is going to Shents at 10am...then he relayed the information to me. I must have sounded so excited and repeated 'Shenton Park' to Simon on the phone to clarify the good news. Alexandra and her big ears took this information in that large brain of hers, ran straight to all my Mum friends at school and to her teacher with jubilation 'Daddy is going to Shenton Park today'. Bless!

So after being told yesterday that we could be waiting for around 2 weeks to get into Shents, you can imagine the surprise when we got told this morning. I must take this opportunity to thank Melissa Thomson (my other sister) for knowing people in high places, making phone calls, sending emails and keeping me in the loop. If it weren't for Melissa, I dare say we would still be at RPH.

On that note, thank you to all the staff at RPH, Leonie, Michelle, Holly, Dani, Sam, Tracey, Leroy and many many others, that helped Simon as he recovered from surgery.

So here we are, Simon is in his room with a view, which he can see when sitting up.
He has kept his wits about him and given the nurses here abit of curry already, you wouldn't expect anything less.

They have told him that every Tuesday is slack arse Tuesday and Wednesday is no whinge day. He will have Saturdays and Sundays to himself, although I am sure he will never be left alone with all the friends and family keen to visit. Visiting hours on the weekend are 8am till 8pm and he is in Ward 11, the spinal unit. If you can work out where you need to go once you pull in to Shenton Park, please visit.

Simon will start his progam on Monday, so he has a long weekend, which just adds to the last 18 days. If anyone was thinking of visiting tomorrow, please text or call my mobile so we know to expect you.

Once a month he has a long weekend as the only staff working on that Friday are nurses. The PCA's, OT's, Physio's etc have that one Friday off every month.

So once the rehab starts, he will start to get tired by the time visiting hours kick in at 5pm, and that time is already blocked out for his three girls.

They have a BBQ here, a big kitchen, toys for the kids, DVD's and loads of space to entertain and catch up. We will be using that BBQ every weekend !!

We are looking forward to the next phase of rehabilitation and Simon's and my determination will make the most of the time we have here.