and not in a good way.

Yesterday evening several members of my immediate family were sitting in the hospital restaurant drinking coffee, they then went to visit my Dad, (only so many on a ward) and hubby and I were left and then, out of hubbys corner of his eye he notices a rat, pattering around in the ceiling light conduit. Okay..(we saw the rat, several times) the rat scampers across, picks something up and runs off with it. We see him scamper several times. A rather lively and alert rat it has to be said.

A long debate follows as to what he has picked up, hubby informs a member of staff, I inform the appropriate authorities in the morning as well as the hospital. The hospital authorities try to convince me it might be a mouse, well, I think I might know the difference, I don’t tell him all of this.. (a) I’ve been catching mice at the moment at the allotment so am completely aware of their girth and width and (b) I know exactly what a rat looks like.

We also notice on one of the plastic light covers what looks like either bait or dead blue bottle flies/or dead bumble bees, to conclude several there were about 10 of said items on the plastic cover, our vision is obscured, but this is what the rat is very interested in.

So, we arrive at the hospital a little early, Mum is thirsty, basically she’s run off her feet and wishes to go for a coffee, my warnings of Weil’s disease are ignored and we enter the restaurant. We sit in the same place.

I look up and there is only one of the dark spots left, where as yesterday there was ten or so.. So, I think its something dead or bait and believe that the rat has eaten it/them.

And then.. it moves.. very slowly but it moves, OMG this huge beetle which it very much looks like by this time, is moving and Mum who understands these things says, “its a cockroach”.. Eeeeewwwww.

We then discuss because, I am my fathers child, (his first employment as a farmers boy) how a rat would rather enjoy a cockroach, a nice juicy meal, etc, etc.

To other news,

and I know I wouldn’t say this, (what is a girl like!)

Compared to Wednesday, he has improved, he’s not out of the woods yet, not by a long chalk. Along with the doctors other worries (lack of movement in lower limbs, MRI scans clear) he has a bacterial chest infection along the lines of Legionairess disease, it isn’t that, but has the same line. His age goes against him.. He was much improved yesterday, but has slightly gone down again today, his right ankle and foot swelled up and became inflamed whilst we were there this evening, I really don’t know what that means, but we did point it out.

He was very disorientated on Wednesday, came good on Thursday and is a little off course tonight.