Pink Pink Pink!!! yahey, peter is PINK!

[LadyVictoriaOfCake]

spoke to my superman this morning, he was about to be pounced upon by physios so wasnt best pleased.

He has had a new IV in, so hoping the central line will be out later. He seems so much better, and is joking about. Cant belive its been a week since our lives changed within moments. He is hoping to be home in about 4-5 weeks, if all carries on well. I cant wait to see him, and give him a hug with no wires and tubes getting in the way. To have him back in our bed, the bed we bought and he slept in for about 3 weeks only.

i am thinking of writing a letter soon to the donor family.

well i have just got off the phone to him. hopefully removing his temp pacemaker today as the heart is keeping good rhytmn, apparently 20% of transplanted hearts need permanent pacing, so he is very happy. says his chest feels soft where theytook out his old ICD Implantable_cardioverter-defibrillator and he is still feelign a bit crappy, but says everyone is telling him he is doing well.

his 'eat what ever you can as long as its high fat and high calorie diet' has been extended to 8 weeks, as he stil lcant swallow correctly and is seeing SALT daily.

His mum popped by yesterday but i had to keep her on the doorstep at arms reach as i cant risk her getting ill as well. she offered to babysit on monday as is our wedding anniversary but told her i couldnt risk it as i dont know how long the girls would be ill, so my mum is doing it as my mum wont be visiting peter for a while, due to her visiting my nan who has MRSA (confusing i know).

Oh misdee . Pink. Bless you, I can't imagine living a life where something most people don't even notice, can mean so much.

You have all been so brave. I am really really happy that Peter is going to be ok.

its pants that you cant visit but at least he is getting better daily

Oh, Misdee, I have only just seen all of this (damn busy life getting in way of mumsnetting). A big, hearfelt, happy, joyous hug to all of you. BIG sigh of relief! Here's too the future

its my wedding aniversary on sunday! will be thinking of you monday!

glad hes improving and that's brill news about the pacemaker!!!

Great news misdee so glad things are going smoothly, will be thinking of you Monday, glad you can go & visit peter

So glad to hear he is still making such good progress LVOC

Is he finding it strange not having the LVAD attached after all this time? iirc it was fairly noisy wasn't it?

Peters hos[pital bed has just been collected from here i can start work now on dd1 bedroom

oh wow, more brill news!!

wow, misdee - the hospital bed has gone!!!! that is fantastic news. So glad he is progressing so well.

that's great Misdee. Gosh it's all happening so fast.

HE WALKED TODAY!!

down the corridor, with a table on wheels beside him for his few wires and stuff stil lattached. but he walked a fair distance!

YAY!

Misdee! that's brilliant, glad to hear he's continuing on the road to recovery

he walked?!?!?! Wow, that is fantastic

can you help me with this

thats amazing stuff walking and pink.

Blimey LV you'd better brace yourself! He's got a lot of lost time to make up for when he comes home!

i know anorak!

This all sound excellent. I'm so, so pleased

I'm so pleased he's doing so brilliantly, LV. The walking bit sounds like amazing progress.

Did they take the pace maker jobby wotsit out today?