Another update from Theresa ---   I know she won't mind me posting it for you all to see.

Hi Everyone Saturday 8/11/08
Kitchen/bathroom now fully functional and a joy to behold, wish I could say the same about me.
Days now taken up with adjusting to a new regime which after being over prescribed by the dietician has now been sorted but there is no joy anymore in looking forward to a really good meal. Although the meals come in umpteen flavours, feeding direct into the stomach just leaves an after taste of baby food in the mouth, .
Today I've started packing for a Musical Cruise down the Danube. Barcelona to Vienna with trips ashore to two operas and on board lectures etc. Flying down to Heathrow on Monday and hotel overnight as flight next day is 8.30am and I don't do mornings very well.
Prescribed food is now packed and has a piece of luggage all to itself, good job the airline will authorise extra baggage allowance for it
My get up and go is looking forward to a bit of R & R. Speech is now really awful and I have been loaned an aid called a Lightwriter. A small keyboard with two back to back screens , there is a speech function but it doesn't understand Lanky dialect, yet! It is very slow and the mechanical voice is out of this world. I'll have to apply myself to wade through the instruction book which when you look something up refers you to another page or two or three till in the end you have forgotten what you were looking for.