The Best Laid Plans

They say that lightning doesn't strike twice but...........

On Sunday 29th Rene got up as normal, got dressed but then developed a bad headache and was dizzy. Sue called the Doctor and Rene's blood pressure was very high, over 200. The ambulance was called and set off to take her to the local city hospital. We said we would follow although we didn't realise we would be chasing the ambulance at 70 to 80 mph!!!

They lost us before we got to Cahors and we had to ask for directions. She must have had a scan as soon as they got her in and the doctor, who fortunately spoke some english, showed us where she had a large area of bleeding in the brain. Basically the high blood pressure had burst into the brain and it was affecting her speech, and her right side arm and leg movement. Things looked black.

However we went to see her today and she was more stable, and the blood pressure had stabilised. She could understand us although she couldn't use the right words when she was talking to us. This made her frustrated and we had to stop her trying to get out of bed!!
It's going to be a long process but things don't look so bleak. You never know what is around the corner and this just reinforces our belief that you must make the most of today.