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now that i have full access to a computer and have discovered that people are still reading this, and want me to continue (are you mad), i'm slowing adding bits to the blog template. one thing that is, i feel, important is pictures - tell a thousand words and so on, so hopefully most posts will now have a picture that vaguely relates to the content.

i've added a nice picture of the trelawney wing at treliske to the front page. this is the side entrance, the one that i arrived by on the 26th, in a green and yellow van - not too dissimilar to the one in the picture. i spent a couple of hours in a + e before being whisked up to the high dependancy unit (hdu) immediately above. take note of the single window immediately above the ambulance canopy, this was my view to the outside world for two days, not only could i see trees, but also the entrance to the maternity wing, where there were dads on mobiles making phone calls.

after my care needs were downgraded i was then moved to roskear ward which occupies the next wing down in the picture and my view was the yard inbetween the two wings and if i craned hard enough i could see the emergency helicopter either taking off or landing - just.

the slightly bizarre thing about the layout of the trelawney wing is that if you enter from the car-parks you actually come in on level one - which was the level of the wards and to get to a+e you would have to go down a floor (but you aren't allowed to get to a+e that way).

one of the evenings i was in roskear i walked with matthew to the front entrance - only to discover that it is being remodeled. i made to step over the threshold as matthew egged me on 'one more step and you can breath that fresh air', when i was greeted by a faceful of cigarette smoke! it appears that patients still have to have their daily fix of nicotine no matter how ill they are, and the nearest place they can do it - right by the front entrance!