Wed 25th:
The home visit went ahead today as planned and was very successful; Andrew remembered everything about the house except for one room which we had started doing up just before he was taken ill. He recognised 3 neighbours; he did not want to go back to the hospital.

He has started getting a bit upset today as he has realising more of what has happened and where he is, so as a partially diversionary tactic, I organised a little trip to the restaurant at the hospital for a cup of tea this afternoon, where we sat for a while looking at the M1(!) and doing some getting of bearings ( south that way, we are facing east etc).. It is part of getting back to normal life, and while I have been answering the same questions over and over again, they are the logical sort of questions that you would ask if you had just come round after a couple of weeks sleep!

It is now somewhere beetween 2001-2012, quite often 2009; Gordon Brown is the prime minister and Barack Obama is president of the US, so we have come quite along way.

There is talk of a discharge, dependent upon the senior consultant visit romorrow. There is no need for a further MRI, the CT scan last week revealed that there was no damage to the artery wall ( he had just come back from holiday and had not seen the CT scan results when he came round and spoke to me on Monday.) The cause is still a mystery. The occupational therapist said that they had been researching recovery of patients with clots in the basilar artery and there wasn't much "because so few survive" so we have been very lucky.

I too am of the opinion that Andrew would be better off home now, and hope this will be before the weekend.

Love to you all
Gill