A scary thing happened today.

On our way to Judith and Gerry's for Mother's Day.

Jack was sat in the front as there is more room in the back for me Mum and Dad, got as far as Bagshot and Dad suddenly said hanky quick!  He was having a nose bleed and there was no stopping it. Mum had 2 hankies but I had nothing...no tissues/wet wipes nothing!  Mum found a very small towel in the door pocket (I use to put it behind Jack's head when he was a baby and got hot).

We stopped in a lay-by and the blood just flowed out like a tap...this had now been going on for about 15mins, so I phoned Gerry to get directions to the nearest hospital.  We started off again and poor old Dad had the towel up at his face pinching his nose and his mouth was filling up with blood with no where to offload it!!.

We made it to St Peter's in Chertsey and went straight to A&E where he promptly off loaded a whole lot of blood on the floor.  That was probably a good thing as the waiting room was bursting so they whisked him off to be seen straight away.

They put a swab under his nose and bandaged it on. He was still spitting out mouthfulls of blood, this was now 40mins after it first started!!

Gerry came to the hospital and insisted that we all went on to their house and he stayed with Dad.

They put a 'balloon' up his nostril to stop the blood and then said he'd have to be transferred to Guildford to have it taken out in their ENT ward.

Gerry came home and told us what was going on and we rang Guildford after a while to see if he was there...he was and he'd had a funny turn.  He fainted and projectile vomited blood all over 3 nurses...so they decided to keep him in over night.

Can't fault the NHS in this instance as he was all sorted within 4hrs.

Mum has to phone in the morning to see how he's been and then hopefully he can come home.

Apart from that I had a lovely Mother's Day and had some lovely things from Jack...a book/nightshirt and herb garden pots.

Clare xx