As the weather has turned wet and stormy and now gets cold, we were waiting for news of Della's X-rays after she had been much more comfortable in recent days. Council colleague Terry Hayward was also admitted to the same hospital with a heart attack, and I sent him a ‘get-well’ message. I faxed Nigel Smith later after he left a message about our planned Scottish trip.
The news is of John Major and Douglas Hurd frantically negotiating with the rest of the EEC over aspects of greater European unity when their own party is split down the middle!
I had a rather unsettled night. Della was slower to go off to sleep that in previous nights and then, once home, I had trouble getting comfortable in bed. I was also awake early this morning before Diana brought my tea and then I was still in bed when Debbie pronounced breakfast of crumpets ready and I went down in my dressing gown to eat. I waited for Di to come home but there was no sign of her by late morning and I wondered whether she was staying there for Della's X-Ray and Doctor's visit but she was only shopping. I made calls to the Committee Clerk's office of the District Council and sorted out this forthcoming week's Southern Area Agenda after our meeting last night.
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I heard from the council the news that Kimbolton School Bursar, Terry Hayward, had suffered a heart attack over the weekend and had been admitted to Hinchingbrooke's Intensive Care Unit which was worrying. A call to the school told me that he had moved out of intensive care and another to the hospital that he had moved to Lime Ward and so I drafted a "get-well" letter to hand in to the ward when I visited. Di was back for an early lunch and then I drove in to St Neots to sort out the building society accounts and then on to Holly Ward to arrive as the play leader was leaving. She told me that Della was very good this morning and then Della herself told me that she had just been down for her X-Ray.
I stayed all afternoon but waited in vain for the doctors to come and review her X-Rays. Mr Vaughan-Lane had been by in the morning and had spoken to Diana and Della and said, subject to satisfactory X-rays, that she might be put in plaster early next week and be home by the following weekend. She would then have to wear the plaster for two months! But we still await the examination tomorrow. Di relieved me at 5.00pm and I went home to learn that Nigel had been trying to contact me in vein and so, after I made myself a tea of grilled trout, I sent a Fax to a Scottish number that he had left before re-joining Della at the hospital until she went to sleep.
The news is of John Major and Douglas Hurd frantically negotiating with the rest of the EEC over aspects of greater European unity. He has both wings of his own very-split party to satisfy which is an impossible job. The weather has turned wet and stormy and now gets cold which makes my planned trip to the Highlands decidedly unappetising.