Back home

Wednesday, 16^th November

Airports can be such a bore. Ben left the belt off, he could not be bothered with the hassle. We had organised a late check out, so we just hung around the hotel room. We flew to Frankfurt again, arriving there this morning, then to Stockholm. This time I managed to sleep.

I am trying to stay up and get back into the time zone, Ben has crashed. The excitement of the last 2 weeks has worn off. We inspected the building work, everything is very nice. Per and Lasse have stocked up the fridge for us, and everything is very clean. It looks nice, freshly painted.

I have phoned several people to report we are back and check if everything is alright here. No problems anywhere.

We had dinner, Ben was not very hungry. We went for a short walk, some fresh air was nice, after the canned air on the plane. The boy is subdued, I hope it's just the jet lag.

Friday, 18^th November

It is up and down and we are back to our routine. After a hectic day yesterday for Ben, doing washing, ironing, shopping and yoga, this morning he woke up with a sore throat. By early afternoon he was not well, he was feverish. I diagnosed tonsillitis. We went to his doctor, I was glad to have the car.

We decided to hit him with some antibiotics intravenously for 3 days, and then he can switch to a liquid. Dr Svensson wanted to do the first session at the surgery, so we were there for 2 hours. Ben mostly slept, and rested when we got home. Luckily he has his shakes anyway, so at least I got some nutrition into him. He has put on some weight while we were away, maybe it was the American food.

I phoned Ruth to get an update what vaccinations he had and any childhood illnesses. It is good to now these things. She was concerned that he was ill, I assured her after a week of antibiotics he will be fine. It is very common when someone is run down and had a lot of stress to develop an infection like this.