Jill and the Task Master

Today Mark had his review with the skin graft surgeon, then afterwards we went up to ICU. When he left ICU in March and said thank you, they said that the best thanks would be to see him actually walk in there one day. So today was that day. They were all really excited to see him. His memories were very vague so it was good for him to see ICU. He recognised people by their voices and remebered things they had said. These people were amazing and saved his life.

This is Jill - the nurse Mark liked the most and wanted to trade me for her!!!! That was Marks bed directly in front of the nurses station just behind Jill.
This is Alecia the head of the ICU high dependency ward. Mark called her the Task Master because she made him get out of bed and sit in a chair for the first time and kept yelling at him to breath for the first few days. She was laughing at him today cause he would get upset at her and take a deep breath to stop her yelling at him - and she said 'see look at you standing there -it worked didn't it'.
They talked to him a lot about his memories and how he felt - if he had been anxious and what things he rememberd most. Alecia said it was great because when she talks to the nurses these are the things she tries to tell them so having him there was really good. It was good for Mark too - not so much for me - it was the worst time of my life -except it is over.

The parting words from all of them - 'we never want to see you back here again!' you don't often hear those words said meaning something nice - but they were nice words.