<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pre-chemoaug14.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1902" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pre-chemoaug14-225x300.jpg" alt="pre-chemo(aug14)" width="225" height="300" /></a>Jane had a really good night once the drain had been removed and she slept through until 6am without any need for sister morphine. I say she slept through, she would have done if she hadn't been woken at 3am by a nurse for her blood pressure to be taken. She takes all these things with such good grace, if someone had woken me from a deep sleep at that time of the morning after the experience she has just had I would have pulled their head from the their body - but that's just me.

This morning she was told that her first chemo would be before midday and although she wasn't looking forward to it, she did want the journey to start. I got a text from her at lunchtime saying the chemo wasn't going to happen today due to staff shortages. This is where I go ballistic! So to save on paying for extra nurses the NHS management are prepared to pay for Jane's stay for an extra night, have a bed out of action and worse still have a significant impact on her emotional balance. I feel certain that the road to a good recovery in hospital is good, friendly staff; a pleasant environment and managing the patients expectations. Lincoln hospital is only getting 1 out of 3 and I'm being generous about the staff.

Having harangued a junior doctor we have been assured that the chemo will happen tomorrow but they will now keep her in until Saturday to make sure she's ok.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/harvestaug14.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1901" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/harvestaug14-300x225.jpg" alt="harvest(aug14)" width="300" height="225" /></a>In the meantime life goes on and Jane's vegetable plot keeps yielding courgettes and runner beans with the prospect of a trug full of French beans when I pick them tomorrow. Tonight I'm going to have the beans with one of Jane's prepared spaghetti Bolognese from the freezer.

Even from her hospital bed she continues to look after me.