Thank you for your good wishes GtS. Believe me yours and all here are most appreciated and a great help. I'm saddened to hear about your friend's wife and, yes, I do count my blessings. Maybe a look round the average Intensive Care Unit should be compulsory for anybody whinging about their lot.
Anyway, Ann is being moved from HDU to the transplant recovery ward, so...maybe in a few days I shall be trusted to wheel her round the hospital and maybe...just maybe take her for a coffee or something in the downstairs cafe!.
Once again, and I shall never stop saying this, thank you all for everything.
Charlie. X