Hospital recovery

I'm not going to try and do daily updates for the bit where we were in hospital, cos one day kinda merged into another, really... just to give you an idea though, here's a rough sort of schedule.
6am ish - wake up for obs including having to stand up for blood pressure
7am - lights on (eeuurgh)
7.30am - blood test
8am - breakfast and morning drugs
10am - doctors rounds
12pm - lunch and lunchtime drugs
2pm - visiting hours start
6pm - dinner and dinnertime drugs
8pm - visitors mostly leave
10pm - night time drugs

Sleep was pretty hard to come by at night, a combination of some very poorly chests belonging to other patients, machines bleeping, heating engineers in the middle of the night with jangling keys, howling winds at my not-quite-shut window or, after Johanna left on the Monday, the incredibly loud snoring of the lady who ended up in the bed next to me. She was truly epic - i had earplugs in and an iPod playing tunes and it was still louder than both of these. :-O

Met some lovely ladies in the ward, one who had donated to her teenage son and one who had had a cadaveric transplant a couple of days before mine. All the nurses and doctors, dieticians, pharmacists and so on were simply brilliant, thank you so much to everyone on Richard Bright ward.