update - animal picspam and family stuff
Apr. 15th, 2012 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaJust over a week ago, I went with the family on an outing to Longleat Safari Park. This is how close one of the tigers got to our car.
We also saw a dancing goat
This lion was rather fab - definitely the king of the jungle
And the baby giant anteater fast asleep on his mum's back was the most adorable thing ever!
Then yesterday saw another long trip out to Oxford and back for my cousin's wedding - big congratulations to Stephen and Danni
But what was especially brilliant about yesterday was seeing my sister Deb up and about and on her feet again, looking almost like her old self. She was still in hospital last time I saw her, back in January. The trip to Oxford for the wedding was the longest she has been out of the house since Christmas and she was wilting badly by mid-evening, but is starting to get a lot better now they've got her on some decent medication. After her last MRI scan, the consultant decided that she did have viral meningitis after all, from which she is now recovering. They've got her on anti-nausea and anti-epilepsy medication and she's on triple-strength beta blockers, which are what has made the real difference. Since she started taking those, she has finally begun to get back to something like her old self again at last as the worst of the neurological symptoms are starting to subside, although she still gets terrible headaches and has no sense of smell or taste. That's the trouble with any kind of brain trauma, I suppose - it takes a long time for the damage to heal, and sometimes it never does. But at least she is definitely healing now at last.
After the long day yesterday, Deb and Ray have the mammoth task of closing down and dismamtling Ray's climbing wall business today. :( In other news, Deb has handed in her notice to the school she works at - she doesn't feel up to working full time any longer, after having been so ill.
And finally, look how grown up our Chelsea Leigh has become all of a sudden - she'll be 16 next month!
We also saw a dancing goat
This lion was rather fab - definitely the king of the jungle
And the baby giant anteater fast asleep on his mum's back was the most adorable thing ever!
Then yesterday saw another long trip out to Oxford and back for my cousin's wedding - big congratulations to Stephen and Danni
But what was especially brilliant about yesterday was seeing my sister Deb up and about and on her feet again, looking almost like her old self. She was still in hospital last time I saw her, back in January. The trip to Oxford for the wedding was the longest she has been out of the house since Christmas and she was wilting badly by mid-evening, but is starting to get a lot better now they've got her on some decent medication. After her last MRI scan, the consultant decided that she did have viral meningitis after all, from which she is now recovering. They've got her on anti-nausea and anti-epilepsy medication and she's on triple-strength beta blockers, which are what has made the real difference. Since she started taking those, she has finally begun to get back to something like her old self again at last as the worst of the neurological symptoms are starting to subside, although she still gets terrible headaches and has no sense of smell or taste. That's the trouble with any kind of brain trauma, I suppose - it takes a long time for the damage to heal, and sometimes it never does. But at least she is definitely healing now at last.
After the long day yesterday, Deb and Ray have the mammoth task of closing down and dismamtling Ray's climbing wall business today. :( In other news, Deb has handed in her notice to the school she works at - she doesn't feel up to working full time any longer, after having been so ill.
And finally, look how grown up our Chelsea Leigh has become all of a sudden - she'll be 16 next month!
