An unpleasant and worrying day after Alison phoned me at 6:30 this morning at work upset but with the wherewithal to tell me first up that there was nothing wrong with Bethany. Her mother had been taken to hospital with chest pains and lack of any further information was increasing her concern. Allowing me to go home I left work and Alison called Helen and she went round to comfort her before I got home. After taking Bethany to nursery Louise and Paul picked her up after dropping Joshua at school and Paul took them to James Cook before returning with Nathan. When they phoned me they told me that Anna had suffered a heart attack but was stable now after having already been in theatre. Tired but strong enough to organize her daughters to cancel tomorrow's hair appointment they took the time she spent napping to visit old friends on the wards they had worked on before I collected them later in the afternoon. Anna's strength of character is well illustrated by the example Alison recounted how after suffering chest pains early this morning after apparently being unwell over the weekend she debated as to whether to call for help. Eventually compromising to ring 111 they sent an ambulance and she climbed upstairs to change into clean pyjamas and wait outside for them. Joking that given time she would have run round with the hoover to ensure her house was presentable to the paramedics was probably not that far from the truth.