As it was the weekend not much happened on the Sunday, Chris slept most of the time which was perhaps a good thing as he was very distressed about what was happening to him. We spent a great deal of the time guessing whether his blood pressure would go up or down when the monitor recorded it every 15 minutes. The only people he wanted to see were myself, John, John' s partner Ceri and my brother Tony, I think Chris didn't want anyone to see him in hospital at that time.
By Monday he was much weaker, there was no movement on his right side, his speech had deterioted further, I found it difficult to understand what Chris was saying which frustrated him greatly as he felt he was speaking correctly. Fortunately John seemed to be able to understand what his Dad wanted. Chris' parents came to see him on Monday afternoon, unfortunately Chris slept through most of their visit.
John and I had a meeting with Chris' speech therapist and she explained that he had aphasia which would affect his communication, at that stage this was all very new to us and we thought it meant he couldn't speak, not understanding it would also effect his reading and writing.
Although Chris had managed to feed himself on day one he was now longer able to do this and I had to help him eat his meals.
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