Oh what a night!

Dinner just about cooked, Yorkshire puds not quite cooked, Mark with bed adjusted to get back in his chair - power went out!! Pitch black it was. Oh dear. Found torch and decided Mark was safer in bed for now, but what about dinner???? It's only the second time I've made REAL Yorkshire puds and now they won't cook properly - bugger! Do we chance it and hope the power comes back on in the next few mins or dish up and eat in the dark. Well it didn't come back on so torch in kitchen, dish up what's edible. So Mark is sitting on his bed, I'm sitting in his wheelchair beside him and we eat and chuckle by torchlight. Romantic??

Even though it's the middle of winter I've still got a few windows open a bit to let fresh air through, so we closed all those to keep whatever heat is in the cottage in for as long as possible, it's going to be a VERY cold night if the power doesn't come back on. We've also got the problem that Mark's bed is in the sitting up position, but we won't worry about that just yet. We get him up and John and Janet come round and we do the most sensible thing we can - we open a bottle of wine of course!

A couple of hours later, we decide we have to make the decision that I'll have to take part of Marks bed to bits so it will go flat the power comes back on. So we get ourselves organised just in case it goes off again and as we're becoming complacent thinking it's staying on - off it goes again. Oooops, will have to take the bed apart after all, this fills Mark with some trepidation, me let loose taking things apart hahaha.

This time it was only off for about an hour, when it came back on it stayed on and it was just as well. About 1.30am Mark had another dysreflexia attack, panic catheter change, bedding change, washing Mark and I was saying a little thankyou to the lecy fairies that I wasn't having to deal with that in the dark. You can just see it can't you, Maureen running round with just a couple of small tea lights around the bed and a torch, Mark barking orders, me not being able to find things fast enough - oh the chaos. What a night!!