Some more of my Spring garden photos and an update on Reg, as I promised.
I took Reg to the doctors this morning and he was given a cortisone injection to help relieve the inflamation he has from all the coughing he had done in the last month.  They also have decided to put him in to antibiotics and he is continuing with some codeine for pain as needed.  He managed the outing OK, came home had a light lunch, looking at our garden again and has gone to sleep after lunch.

So I'm feeling happier, he has been checked over again, is a little better on his feet today than yesterday, even cracked a few jokes about how he hoped the injection will have him back feeling like he is 69 again not 89 and I cracked jokes about having 'married a man 26 years my senior for his money' and how 'I was waiting to inherit the Shell oil company fortune when he kicked the bucket from old age'.   The later is a joke he began, when we married, 40 years ago. He sure has been moving more like the frail elderly than a gray nomad, this last few days and I also told him, laughing at the time, :-) 'I expect him to take me out dancing tonight once this cortisone injection, 'kicks in'", :-).

Now Reg is usually very restrained in spending money, but he pulled his debit card out of his pocket and paid for that injection with an eagerness Iv'e never seen before, he also was so relieved, something was being done to try to help him feel better.  
Having regained his abiliy to make conversation and his humour,  he complain to me that the injection cost $35. and we were both able to laugh again together when I said, 'just as well, your not a dog' as you never get out of a vets with an injection costing less than $100.'.  Yesterday even talking about our travels could not raise a smile, just a look that said, 'I don't want to think about anything, I'm in too much pain'  , he wasn't up to talking othr than to refuse going to the doctors.  I did my bullying act today to get him there, and I know he is pleased now.   We BOTH, feel more positive and less worried about his progress than we felt yesterday. 
Whooping cough  (pertussis), is usually a very mild illness for most teenagers and adults but can knock the stuffing out of the very young and the old.

You can get immunized against whooping cough and it has been doing the rounds in increased incidence, in Australia now since 2008 so it might be worth checking if those who can be vaccinated in the family, have been, as it's a nasty thing for a baby to get and it's sure been hard on Reg at 69, so if mostly to protect the very young and the very old, consider keeping up the preventable illness, immunizations.