Loads of news tonight.

There was the extravaganza we all would really have liked to join! Looked like a wholelottafun!! Twitter was alive with pictures from the #SongForPádraig and the #AmhrándDo Phádraig. Looking at all the “beautiful people” involved it’ll be the song of songs.

There was the report in the Limerick Leader about the Table Quiz and the background story to it.

And last but not least, Pádraig, the man who gets us all involved in never-heard-before-of extravaganza’s had his own double scare today. Pat went in to him in the morning to be with him for the use of the speech valve and when sitting in his wheelchair. All routine stuff. Only that today routine was not the order of the day. He had a rising temperature and a high heart beat. Enough to skip the speech valve, enough to skip the wheelchair. By midday, the senior doctors had decided not to give him an antibiotic straight away but to give his body a chance to fix itself. So it was good auld paracetamol instead of the heavy ‘guns’. And – it worked. The temperature came down and all his other vital parameters returned to almost normal by late afternoon. Which is when his nurse called a (junior) doctor to check out his cramps. One test followed the next – all returning more or less ok results. The doctor felt with 80% certainty that Pádraig had an epileptic fit. So late tonight they did a CT which luckily did not show any obvious new injuries in his brain. So just before 11pm, we got the phone call to say that we could go to sleep without worry. The doctor will give him an anti epileptic drug tonight and tomorrow we will have a conversation with a senior doctor to find out more about the ‘seizure’ and the medication they propose to give to Pádraig. – To be honest, I find it hard to believe that Pádraig did, in fact, have an epileptic fit,  almost 12 months after the accident, and I would it find even more difficult to accept that he should start taking medicine, possibly for the rest of his life, that would quite dramatically interfere with his health and state of mind. We’ll see tomorrow, I am sure!!!