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'Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that peace begets Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at e'en he sets?' I always liked that poem, attributed to John Donne. Markus had a fair morning, and I was so happy he could speak to me, though in a whisper. The night hadn't been good, and he'd been struggling for breath. But we talked a bit in the morning before he settled down to sleep and I went to the doctor's for his tablets…

please do it privately and not by way of blogs and forums. This is a site for constructive support, not destruction. Apart from doing each other untold harm and making life unpleasant, you scare off other people. Especially new members - that's the last thing they need to se on here. Olive branches and doves, Pat

This is so difficult. Markus came home from hospital yeterday, and slept most of the time. He is very breathless, and woke up frequently during the night to try to cough, or to sit up to get some air. He managed some soup last night, but today only half a glass of milk, and he won't have the intravenous nutrition, although I was taught how to do it. He has struggled for breath most of the day, and only tonight can he…

Thanks to the good care in the department, lots of different antibiotics and his indomitable will, good old tenacious Markus has improved a lot, and if his temperature stays down, he'll be coming home on Tuesday. He's coming home with a cartload of intravenous nutrition, so I have to learn how to deal with that. Hope they send a stand with it too, otherwise I'll have to hook him up to the light fitting! It's been a long…

Markus has double pneumonia, and the situation is serious, said the oncologist today. They are trying to stop the infection, but his blood tests were still not good yesterday. He is having lots of morphine, so he's not in pain, lots of antibiotics, and he had some intravenous nutrition (looks like milK!) yesterday, which he coped with well. His temperature was down this morning - it just has to stay down now! So here…