Well, Christine and I never smelt it, but one of the nurses decided she could smell electrical burning in my room, and she fetched another and another and suddenly it was time for fire alarms and the pair of us had to abandon my room.... permanently. We spent the next hour, when I usually have an afternoon nap, just moving every scrap of clothing, toiletries, CDs, books, posters and get-well cards from room 6 on one side of the corridor to room 9; it’s mirror image on the other side. Internally the room is identical in layout but when I leave it I have to remember to turn right instead of left; and the window faces South which means there is no reflected light from the building opposite. The best thing about the new room is that the air conditioning fan is quieter through working less hard because the door pressure seals are much better.
So eventually I got a late afternoon snooze and Christine went off for some fresh air and exercise down the road. Earlier the morning had been taken up by Christine and I having an extended coffee break c/o ‘the Friends’ and discussing all the previous day’s events down in Yorkshire, where the time had come for the clearing of my mother’s house, bless her. The family have all rallied round and managed to get the bulk of the sorting done, but there’s more going on today and tomorrow; while I am stuck here like a beached whale counting Neutrophils (which, incidentally, are back to a more expected 1.57)