Alfie says.... consultant schmulsant

so today i am defying the consultant - who apparently we are liking again - but anyway he prodded me this morning as he seems to every morning and i went a bit mad - wouldn't you? but anyway after prodding and listening he decided that i was 'stable and improving' - which to be honest i think he was quite surprised about and if i was being paranoid quite upset about - not that he wants to me to be ill you understand but since he's been 'in charge' of me has wanted to take me a few steps back in my progress. i'm sure hes not some nutter and only thinking of my welfare (well we hope) but either i'm a medical marvel or he might have been a bit wrong in his initial assessment. To be fair to him he's very willing to take on board the advice of the nurses and mum and dad on how i'm looking/feeling etc etc so thats why we're liking him a little more today as hes clearly happy to take advice from other people and as he said only the other day in his rather plumy consultant voice 'listen i can't tell you what he's going to be like aged ten' - well yes to be honest i'd rather know how i'm going to be in 24 hours to be honest - 'but my job is not to make him any worse' - thanks surely thats the very least i can expect of you. Anyway due to my 'stable but improving' assessment he is now a little less obsessed about the lumbar puncture (LP as it will now be known) and is quite happy to see how i am tomorrow. Apparently the longer we leave it the less relevant it is to my 'management' anyway - i'm on all the antibiotics that would fight menengitis so the only difference really is how long they give them to me for. obviously if i improve a bit and they don't do the LP and then stop the antibiotics but then i go a bit down hill again because if i do have it thats not great but M&D have agreed with the consultant that they will all discuss it everyday and decide, 1. whether i'm actually well enough to have it and 2, if i am, what good will it actually do. so M&D seem a bit happier about that. I of course have no say, as i can't talk yet which is becoming a bit annoying - so good at typing but can't utter a single word - i tell you it sucks....