ouch

I was a bit previous in assuming that the pain from the air making it's way round my bod under the skin was gone. It hasn't. Unbelievably painful. It gravitates it's way to the top of your rib cage and shoulders, and is like having a knife stuck in you.

Great mate Colin was despatched to get some peppermint based medicine and tea to try and alleviate the pain. This worked to a point with some strong pain killers, but I couldn't lie down so slept in the chair in the bedroom.

Keeley,as ever, is my absolute rock. Fetching cups of tea, tucking me in, just being there and reassuring me.

I am on a liquid diet for a couple of days until my tummy settles, because, as I discovered to my cost yesterday, a bowl of porridge was incredibly painful to digest. So it's nesquik, soup and tea for a while.

Before signing off here is a pic of the rig (food tube) and of my bruise where the nurse inserting the canular hit an artery rather than a vein. Ouch!