Morning all, it’s sort of sunny here, a great improvement after yesterday’s biblical weather. However, it’s a sad day because one of my sister’s best friends since schooldays has died. She has been unwell for about seven weeks, although my sister said she had been looking unwell for longer than that. Just over two weeks ago, she started getting pains, initially she thought they were muscular but then they started moving around - back, chest, shoulders - so she went to the doctor, saw a locum who said it was muscle pain and prescribed Valium
No improvement, so she went back again, saw her own doctor who got bloods done and said she might have an ulcer or gallbladder problems. In the meantime she had virtually taken to her bed, feeling ill and dizzy and not eating. Finally a friend drove her to A&E last Saturday and she was admitted and they were to do a CAT scan. Yesterday morning early they moved her to ICU, late yesterday evening they said they were just making her comfortable, and she died this morning. Her sister was on holiday in America but arrived back in the early hours, so thankfully got to say goodbye. She would be a friend of ours also, we’ve known her and her sister since they were in school, they lived across the road from my parents. Such a shock.
We are off to dance practice shortly, then back to collect Kellie from school and have her here for the afternoon, my sister was to do it but she is very upset so we stepped in.