I am sitting in Pádraig’s room and thinking how we ended up in Hamburg, Germany? –  Granada, Spain – maybe; Florence, Italy – yes; but Hamburg, Germany??

Then I thought, at least the Germans are good soccer players, and went off to check the odds of Germany winning the world cup. No better place than Paddy Power. So I went and checked it.

 

Only to find out that the hospital network had decided to block Paddy Power as an ‘inappropriate’ site. = No betting in the Schön-Klinik. Thinking about it, I realised why – There are entire wards for people with addiction problems. They should not be able to do online gambling, at least not from the hospital groun

Pádraig is doing well physically – speech valve twice a day with virtually no complications, wheelchair for a couple of hours, and viva-la-MotoMEd for 3.6km. He is also on the physic’s list for tomorrow, Saturday – which is really great! There have been no major developments since his yes/no communication, but we hope for much more to come. The excursion into the famous Rosengarten cannot be that far away now: wheelchair has arrived, he is stable, can breathe without additional oxygen, and the weather could not be better.

Seems that the Amhrán do Phádraig project is gaining some significant momentum. Check the project out here. And go and join the project meeting next Monday to take part in the recording!

Pádraig’s friends in the Open Sea Swimming world are planning a swim in support of the Caring for Pádraig fund. Visit their website and note the date of the swim. Could be the biggest sea swim this year!

If you are living in the Limerick area, join the O’Malley Clan (Pádraig’s gran was an o”Malley) for their fundraiser on 20 June at 9pm in Crokers Pub, Murroe, Co. Limerick.

So much for today. See you tomorrow.