Not a lot to report since my last blog.

 Elaine is making steady progress, but I have to say that there is a fair bit of up and down. We have had a chat with our GP and he has added a couple of things to help compensate for the side effects of all these pain killers. I did a count the other day and Elaine is taking 30 pills every day plus a couple of liquid drafts...wow! I did the count as part of an attempt to rationalise and avoid having to get new scripts every week for one or other of the pills, sometimes 2 or 3 scripts but I am sure that you understand where I am coming from. This is difficult because a number of the medications require individual authorisation from the government due to them being restricted for obvious reasons (addicts choices). This week we saw our pain specialist and he started a program to reduce the medication as a result of Elaine's lessened pain level. This first reduction is one of the restricted ones and that will now last to line up with the rest of them.

Elaine's improvement shows in all sorts of things such as greater awareness and less confusion, a little bit of gardening and importantly more and better interaction with the kids, grandkids and friends. Today we went to Poppy's sports day for an hour or so, which was great. She still sleeps most of the time, but hopefully that will change as we lower the overall medication dosage.