Family visit

Mum now has less than a week to go before the scheduled date for her operation, and she can't wait to get home.

Because there were such a crowd of us visiting her today, we walked down the corridor and sat in the Relatives' Room. As well as Hannah and Henry, Andy also brought his wife Vicky and their 20-month-old daughter Molly. We were a bit of a squash in the Relatives' Room which was small (just about enough seats for all the adults in our party), windowless and very warm - and there was nowhere else we could go because of Mum being hooked up to her gizmo.

So we did our best to keep the young children amused with books and games (hat tip to Dad for suggesting we take toys) but even "Dead lions" didn't keep them quiet!

We were evicted at 2pm at the end of visiting hour, and Mum reluctantly went back to her bed, while the rest of us went in search of some food. The nearest pub proved not to serve food on a Saturday, so we headed for Swansea West services, where we found the advertised Little Chef had been replaced with a Costa Coffee. Great. We ended up eating a Burger King.

Matt and I go back to Cumbria tomorrow, so the next blog entry will probably be on Monday.

Emily