109.6 miles and 2hours and 20 minutes

Sunday
109.6 miles and 2hrs 20mins is the distance and time by road between the computer I’m sitting at in our kitchen in Wiltshire and William and Catherine in G O S H in London. These figures are from the AA route planner I think it might take a little longer during rush hour. Today was my last visit until day 0 (BMT Thursday) I would like to thank South West trains for the shorting of my day with the family by an Hour and a half so they could dig up the line.
Once I finally made it to G O S H it was to find William and Cath watching Tractor Ted on the Laptop kindly sponsored by The Hairy Pot Plant Company check them out ideal gifts for those with and without green fingers. Those of you, who know William well, will know him as a busy little chap always on the move. Today and yesterday the treatment has begun to take its toll and all he wants to do is sit on a lap and watch D V Ds. He had the last of his Campath today and was hooked up from 11.30 till 5.30 hopefully it should be a shorter time tomorrow with the drips.
As Cath as mentioned William goes in to Green tonight so to break us in to it he had his meals from the green kitchen today. The rules are hot food must be eaten within an hour and cold food within four hours if not eaten it goes in the bin, so we had to keep William awake to make sure he ate something at lunchtime. Not that he as much of an appetite the only thing he really ate today was a yogurt (from Somerset) and some chocolate buttons sent up by Hannah (brought with her pocket money).
William had his final trip to the playroom this morning we built a train track and played for a little while. He will not be back there until his white blood cells reach a magic number probably in a months time. His final taste of freedom was to walk me to the Nurses station this evening from now on he does not leave his room.
Those of you who visited Cath and I when we lived on Moor Court Farm may remember during Foot and Mouth the bio security you had to go through. Arriving at the farm gate and having to get out of your car and wash your shoes and then drive your car over a disinfectant mat before driving down to the house a bit of a hassle specially if we where on our way back from the pub.
Now that Williams in Green this is the bio security we go through before we can hug him. On entering the unit you go in to the air lock a double door set up one side normal air the other filtered air. In the air lock you wash your hands above the wrists no watches can be worn first you uses soap then an alcohol gel. Outside William’s room is a cupboard with draws in. In one of the draws are plastic aprons because you had to open the draw you need to use the alcohol gel on the wall by the door before you go into the room. Once in the room you wash your hands again with soap and reapply the alcohol gel but you have forgot you bottle of water its sitting out on the cupboard so you remove the apron put it in the bin go back out of the room put on another apron and clean your hands all over again. Just in case William touches the bottle you now clean it with an alcohol wipe. This will reduce the risk of infection but we have been warned William will get an infection at some point.
Tomorrow or today as the clock on the computer now says 00.10 William has Grandma Battam to look forward to no doubt loaded down with goodies so Cath will have the wipes ready and Cath is off to lunch with Jo and Lisa. I’m off to my bed as Gillie will want walking in a couple of hours and Cath will post a new message when she can. Hope the spelling and grammar makes sense.
Rob.
PSPlease take my wife out to lunch she needs to leave the room at least once a day thank you