Craving 渇求 for good food

17 October 2011 Monday, Day 5

Sandy and Gilbert went to Bruny Island and they enjoyed the trip. The weather could not be better. As I was more sober 清醒 than before, I had some nice chats with Grace.

This was an uneventful day. A spoonful of soft stuff, whatever it was, as breakfast (same for lunch and dinner). After breakfast, the nurses came to change my gown and give me a wash as well as check my back lest 惟恐 I might have bedsores 褥疮. As I had to be kept flat with no movement in the spine 脊椎 at all, every time I was washed, there had to be 4 nurses - one to hold my head, two to align 排成一线 my body with the head, and one to clean and check me.

The nurses from time to time asked the usual list of questions, making sure I knew who I am and where I was. They even asked do I know who the prime minister is. I should have said Wen Jiabao to show them I still had some sense of humour.

In addition, there was the hourly shining of a lightpen into my eyes. The nurse exclaimed, “these are the darkest eyes I have seen!”  Other than the dark eyes, I was told that the eye white in my left eye was filled with blood, probably making it harder for the nurse to see the responses in the pupil.

As food was awful, I had to give a friend a phone call to tell her that I missed her soy milk. So the news broke to the Chinese community in Launceston.

Mark said now that I complained about food, I was definitely on the mend.

sorry i did not see your previous ones. all the best for you.

Thanks.  The accident was more than half a year ago.  I am still on the way to recovery and hopefully not for long.