This is going to be a long road...

Just want to say thanks for all your prayers and well wishes for Greg, unfortunately there are not many more answers as yet. They did another brain scan yesterday and the scan showed that there is more bleeding on the brain and his brain is more swollen but in saying that they did the very first scan on the day of the accident, so it makes sense that the brain would've continued to bleed and swell for a while. I suppose they will do another scan tomorrow to see if it's the same, we are hoping that it's either the same or better as that means that the bleeding would have stopped. Greg is very agressive which apparently is very normal with this kind of head injury.

They have restrained him because he keeps pulling out the IV's etc but somehow he managed to get free and ripped out his catheter - this is really bad news as he has damaged his uretha and the urologist says that he'll have to insert another catheter but this one will need to stay in for a month to allow everything to heal, so all in all, this is going to be a very long road for all of us. Dr's aren't saying much as it's too early to tell if there is going to be permanent brain damage, if there is then he will have a speech problem and the motility on his right hand side will be affected but there are rehabilitation programmes for this. The good news is that Greg is talking and making sense, not all the time...sometimes he recognises people and sometimes not, the brain is a funny thing so no definate conclusion can be made as yet. He just wants to go home now and he doesn't realise how serious the injury is, he is asleep most of the time so only really talks between waking which doesn't last long. If he continues to fight then they will have to sedate him and intubate him which we are hoping wont happen. He will be in ICU for at least the next 10 days or so....

I spent the afternoon looking after the kids yesterday and my goodness they are a busy bunch! The seem to scatter and you can't watch all of them, thank goodness Frank's gran was with me and she could keep and eye on one of them....They are taking it quite hard and keep on asking for their Daddy, Jessica has asked Miggy to promise that Daddy will be okay - oh it just breaks my heart. They took the kids to see him and thankfully he slept through the whole thing, the Trauma Nurse says that it's important for them to see that he is okay and is getting better.

Other than that, AF is taking her sweet time, maybe it's just stress...need to finish my story of how we got to where we are....maybe this afternoon...

Prayers please....

First of all, I just want to say thanks for all your messages...still getting into this so will get to your blogs in due time....Thanks for the refferal Madam Bumble....hehe!

It has been quite a weekend...most of it was quite good, if not a bit too much alcohol induced but hey, that's what taking a break is for, none of this normal two week wait nonsense for me right now and I must say I really had a good go at it!!

But unfortunately it all has to end somewhere, hangover or not....we got a call early yesterday morning, from Frank's sister, to say that Greg (her husband) had been in a cycling accident and had been taken to hospital....she would let us know what happened. We then received a phone call 10 minutes later to say that he was quite bad...so of-course we rushed off to hospital.

We spent all day at the hospital, Greg is now in ICU after being operated on my a maxilo facial surgeon to try and fix his face a bit....38 stitches just on his face. He has been stitched everywhere else aswell, his hands and knees that where cut to the bone. He is now what they call stable, but they always tell you the worst case senario.

Greg has a severe head trauma, with bleeding on the brain. For now they can't tell us whether they will need to operate or whether the bleeding and swelling will increase, it is on the side of the brain that controls speech and right motor function so we'll have to see what the next few days bring. From the hospital we went to spend some time with their kinds as Miggy was staying at the hospital with him for the night, we bathed them, fed them, got them settled and into bed. Frank's mom stayed with them for the night, we are all shattered today and i'm sure it's going to be a very long week. They have three kids, Jessica is 8, Sarah is 7 and Ryan is only 3 (he turned 3 on Sat)....they are taking it like kids do, the one minute they are crying the next they are laughing. Ryan seems to be taking it quite badly, he doesn't understand what is going on and keeps on asking for his daddy.

Greg was supposed to ride his 10th Argus in two weeks, the doctor said that if he recovers from this then he doesn't ever want him on a bike again. They were riding a last "practice" race, They ride a tandem and where in the front of the pack on a downhill going about 70km/h whens someone clipped thier front wheel and they went down, it's unfortunate as Greg landed on his face just below is helmet. Andy (his brother) came away with a lot of cuts and scrapes and a dislocated finger, but emotionally is in quite a bit of shock as Greg was passed out and battling to breath until the paramedics got there.

Please pray for a good recovery for Greg and strength for his family to get through this.

Other than that, life goes on regardless.

Old faithfull is on her way, after all this time she thinks I can't feel her sneaking up on me, hey Aunt flo....I'm a pro at this!!