Shaz and I had a great visit with Steve tonight. He was in good form and we spoke about his mums visit which was this afternoon and how much Steve had enjoyed his mum and her friend Pete being there. It was Shaz's birthday on Monday just gone. Pauline and Steve had got her a lovely pressy and card. It brought a tear to shaz's eye when she read the card because Steve had been practising writing it out for her and although it is still painful for him to do he had managed to write something special inside.

While we were with Steve we did the usual several laps around the ward and Steve did several step ups onto his step box. He has now progressed to stepping up so that both feet are on the box and then stepping back down again. He has to take it slowly but its another indication that he is regaining strength in his leg muscles.

He has had is in growing toenail sorted and he feels better for that now. He is able once again to put his right foot down in a more normal manner when he is walking. The results from the examination on his right ankle are due back soon and we are hoping for good news. The Hospital as an extra measure are going X-ray the ankle area to make sure there's nothing sinister going on in there to do with the muscles or bones.

Pauline has told Shaz and I that the stairlift is due for being installed any day now. This will be good news for Steve has it will mean he can spend more time at home which will lead to him being permanently discharged from Hospital hopefully in the near future. Medical care will continue for some time to come but this will be delivered as an outreach type of care.

We left Steve tonight to get his head down and get some rest. He is going home again on Saturday and is really looking forward to that again. The visit was really good. Seeing Steve laughing and joking with us both was great even though once again I got some stick off him for various reasons mainly to do with the wearing of certain thermal garments. I don't mind and he's bigger than me.

Hopefully we'll see you all at the Football match this Sunday.