As one set of physical problems gradually fade something else pops up to replace them !! It seems I’m in an endless exhausting cycle which has gone on for weeks and weeks. First it was the Noro Virus, then the C.Diff bug, then the drug side effects, now I have some mysterious fever - probably viral - which has so far lasted 10 days but shows no sign of abating. They started me on penicillin VK on Tuesday but that has made no impression on the temperature after 4 days so not very hopeful it’s going to make much difference.

However the good news is that it is not total wipe out. It’s not a fever so high that all you want to do is languish in bed shivering. It starts off the day up a little and only as the day progresses does it get steadily higher. When it hits 38.5 C (101+F) in the early evening I start to get shut down and need my bed. So life carries on the rest of the day as long as I don’t stress the system too much (I have to sleep in the afternoons still) - it’s running with it’s batteries permanently flashing ‘low power’ and seems to need every ounce of ‘juice’ to fight what ever is going on in there. After over 6 months on immuno-supressants they have finally come to an end this week; but this rather pathetic new body I’ve been given hasn’t got a clue how to fight infections yet. This is it’s first practise run at how to do it all by it’s self; it may take a while to get it’s self organized.

Meanwhile Spring progresses quickly. The procession of the trees from the winter underworld is almost complete and all are standing in attendance in their greenery awaiting the king and queen - the Ash and the Aspen - to make their stately appearence.