Arrows of Time

We would first like to let the readers of Ian's Blog know that it will now be a collaboration of his family, with Ian maintaining his careful oversight.

Whilst Diana has been making a second home by Ian's bed supporting him with the love, care and attention only she can give, they have discovered how their perception of time has shifted. Or rather they have discovered new arrows of time in their Universe.

Ian's time is like being a constant centripetal force holding events and people around him with their own varying angular velocities. A bit like being the cog in the centre of a spinning (and bent) bicycle wheel. These events include a school bell being rung for meal times and the nurses coming round doing their regular checks (as well as, among other things, hallucinating ice cream vans!). The people spinning around Ian include family and friends who send their messages of love and support, as well as those who visit, which keep Ian going through the low and high velocities he perceives from the centre of his bicycle wheel.

Diana's time is a lot more one-dimensional, with an ever changing state of energy. Time is transient as she commutes daily between home and the hospital, but slows to almost a standstill when she is at Ian's side, sometimes with the presence of time itself vanishing. Anywhere else, time becomes more radiative, with the ebb and flow of (almost) normal life speeding up and slowing down time.

As you can hopefully infer from all that blabber, Ian is still in hospital being cared for by the wonderful people that make the NHS work. We are hoping to get him to a hospice next week or even get him home at the Manor House using a "care package" of a hospital bed coupled with frequent visits from Nurses - but as we all know, the arrow (or source) of time in the NHS is quantum (or uncertain)!!

With love,
iDASH