Hi and thanks for stopping by my blog.

It‘s  been such a long time since I’ve written a blog post that I thought I should let you know why and what’s been going on in my personal life that has caused me to stop posting.

My regular readers will know that I had a minor operation back in June and that I was then on bed rest for three months while the op’ site healed. It still hasn’t healed and has in fact got worse, so much so that I now have to see a Plastic Surgeon about fixing me up again.

On top of that my mum has been admitted to The Neuro ICU at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Roughly Four years ago my mum had a series of strokes and was in hospital for a few months. During which time she was found to have Four Aneurisms around her brain. Surgeons managed to make two of them safe by fitting coils around them but found that the remaining two were conjoined and would be extremely difficult to operate on, putting my mums life at risk.

Sadly on September 11th the conjoined aneurisms erupted and led to a bleed on the brain. Luckily my wife had been to visit my mum that day and couldn’t get an answer when knocking on the door, so she phoned one of my brothers and asked him to call in after work and see that mum was ok.

Shortly after my brother arrived at my mums, she seemed to have some kind of seizure and fell into her armchair. My brother called an ambulance and my mum was rushed to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where they gave her a CAT scan which showed a bleed to her brain.

My mum was then rushed to The Neuro Intensive Care Unit at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. She was taken to theatre in the early hours of Saturday 12th where a surgeon fitted a drain to remove the excess blood from her brain. After the operation the surgeon told us to go home and contact family members as her chances of survival were extremely slim.

When we returned to the hospital we were taken to the dreaded side room to talk to the doctor in charge of my mum. We were then told that my mums condition was critical but that she was putting up a good fight and whilst she was fighting the hospital would do all it could to assist her.

She was in the Neuro ICU for 3 weeks with a nurse and family member by her side 24/7. The doctors were assessing her 3 times a day then meeting with my family once a day to keep us informed.

She has now been moved to the Neuro Science Ward where her condition is now stable, thanks to the dedication and hard work of the Doctors and Nurses of the Neuro Science Unit.

My mum still has a long road to recovery but is making a small improvement every day. Now that she is on a ward there are restrictions on visiting times, which has enabled my family to return to our lives and try to catch up on various commitments, hence this post.

I’m still travelling to Oxford every day to see my mum and meet with doctors to discuss her progress and the next step. My mum is also deaf which makes it very difficult for the nursing staff to communicate with her, so I’m also relaying the information to her.

Nobody can say how long it will take my mum to recover; in fact we’ve been told that “due to the devastating bleed on her brain she may not be able to make a full recovery”. All we can do now is wait and see.

I will be back on line with some fresh content as soon as possible.

In the mean time, take good care of yourselves and your loved ones.

Respect and Regards, Barry

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