Thank you to all who have posted today, felt so low and horrid at the time of posting the above and still frustrated with how last night went down.

Called my wife this morning (I got very tearful again... making a bloody river) and told her what had happened. That I wanted to come home, explaining that I felt this place was doing nothing for me.

She asked to speak to the deputy matron who was on shift and I left him to have a private chat with her... they spoke for a good 15 minutes and then brought the phone to me. Wife said I wasn't to discharge myself and that she would come visit me this afternoon (I mentioned earlier that a friend had cancelled on me and had told her first thing this morning).

Well, when she arrived at visiting time.... my friend was with her which was a bit of a shock. They went into the office to talk to the nurse and came and found me later. Transpires that after my call this morning, wife got very upset and called my friend (not sure if she was angry with him or what)... he in turn jumped in the car and drove from his city to ours and spent the hours up to visiting with her and his wife.

They are taking her to their home for a couple of days to refresh the batteries and not be on her own.

They spent the afternoon with me and my mate got to see a mix of my mask that he knows me for.... and my 'illness' as I had times of agitation and crying. Both said that was I to try and discharge myself at the moment, the nurses had advised that the on call doctor would look at my recent notes and on that basis would most likely section me (which would cause a lot of complications)... so to try to ride things out till at least Wednesday when the wife comes back and see how I feel then.