Mt Bit Box Card

Good Morning Ladies,

I want to start by letting you all know that Matt is home, he has a two week course of Antibiotics to take and has to contact his Rheumatology team to let them know that he has had another bout of Kidney Infection complicated this time by the Bacteria that was found in his Blood sample, I think that they were concerned at the frequency and asking the team to look into it, I do know that Matt is supposed to have a full biological study done to see how the drugs are affecting his body, with him being on Immunosuppressant Drugs x 2.  I have to say it is one of those things that worries me whenever I think about it but the trade off is having a better quality of life (day to day) and to be honest neither Matt or Becca let their Arthritis stop them doing anything.  

It's just nice having him home, I have him stocked up on Probiotic Yoghurts to try and replace his healthy Bacteria and stop the Antibiotics from making him feel too unwell, especially as he is keen to get back to work.

I think he was just relieved to be out of that ward, I know those nurses worked hard, Matt just found it so distressing seeing the other patients suffer, he did manage to explain to both of the gentlemen's relatives about the feeding situation. Handing the situation over to them, he did say the one chap's daughter came in to shower and change him yesterday morning and he said he looked and smelt a lot better. Matt is a bit like me and tends to worry about other people.

The last frustrating part of this saga was that Matt drove himself to the Emergency appointment at the Gloucester Royal, so his car remained in the car park from very early hours Saturday morning, as he was transferred as an Emergency to A&E dept. We asked about his car and were told that it would be fine, the Ward Sister would call the Car Park and sort it out, it turned out that this was not the case, she did try to call but was told that he would have to pay the Full cost of having his car there for 24 hrs a day x 4, so he was going to have to pay a HUGE amount that was totally ridiculous, when he was in same situation in Swindon there was a procedure in place that let you out of the car park for free if you were in 'In Patient'.  Anyway he was getting extremely stressed, which wasn't ideal, I then saw that if you had lost your ticket or had it stolen you would have to pay £25 to get out, so I told him to rip up his ticket and do that!  I will say that the Ward Sister was disgusted and felt sorry for Matt, the problem was the Car Park was managed by a different company.

Harley was so pleased to see him he almost wagged his tail off, it was so lovely to watch, the two of them were inseparable for the rest of the day, peace at last, well for now!!

I did manage to get into the craft room to make something quick and easy for this week's challenge, I grabbed one of my Bit Boxes and picked out some Berry Burst, White and Old Olive card pieces and I wanted to only use the Embossing Folder and Dies that came with my BARGAIN Mini Die Cutting Machine from Aldi.

So I made a small card base with the largest 'Bit' of Berry Burst I could find, I then Embossed a piece of White card with the Folder that came in the box, its a pretty lattice design with birds and flowers, I adhered this to my card base, then Die cut the 'Hello' for a tiny sliver of pink card, I then cut three smaller flowers and one large using the dies included with the machine, using the small one as the centre of the larger one, I did add some foliage from another die though. 

I laid out my design and stuck all of the elements down.

It's a very basic (nothing special) card but it's a start !!!

It will be nice to wake up and not be checking my phone straight away to see if Matt had messaged or needed me to call him.  I wonder how long the peace will last !!

I hope that you all have a lovely day,

Love and hugs to all of you 

Sandra

xxxxxx