Swindon Magic Roundabout and my satnav

I wanted to see what my satnav would do with the Swindon Magic Roundabout, so I entered two cross-roads on either side and told it to calculate a route between the two.

Unfortunately, it treated the Magic Roundabout as a normal one and told me go clockwise 4/5 of the way around it rather than going 1/5 of the way anti-clockwise around the inner (big) roundabout. It also didn't display the mini-roundabouts on its map.

Google Maps did a bit better, though the directions were a tad confusing; the mini-roundabout it told you to leave it it simply listed as "Go through 1 roundabout".

On the other hand, it did know that the road around the roundabout was called "The Magic Roundabout" and could route you to that, or tell you that you were driving on The Magic Roundabout.

Marek in hospital

Marek's in hospital right now, probably with pneumonia.

A week or so ago, he got "vaccinated" (is that that the word? They didn't give him dead or disabled germs but instead antibodies) against pneumonia, since preemies are apparently at risk for that (and the shot cost on the order of €1000, apparently; thank goodness insurance paid for it).

On Saturday, he was drinking very little, only about half of what he "should" be, so Stella took him to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with bronchitis and discharged hom again, with orders to report back the following day.

So Stella took him back on Sunday (missing Ireen's and Emily's birthday party... probably just as well, since with the snow on the roads, coming back took me an hour and a half and I was glad I just had a sleeping Amy in my car and not a possibly-cranky baby as well), but he seemed to be doing better so he came home again that day.

Then today at physical therapy, he had problems breathing and Stella took him to the paediatrician (where they snuck him in between appointments); then he got taken to hospital in an ambulance.

Stella was only home for a couple of hours this afternoon, and she'll be spending the night there.

If it does end up pneumonia, he'll probably stay in hospital for a week or so, and Stella will probably spend most of that time there with him; the nurses asked her to do so because they're too short on staff to take care of him properly (attend to him when he cries, that sort of thing; I don't think they'd let him die), returning home only for a couple of hours a day. She did say she'd spend the night of the 24th/25th at home, though.

So, we'll see. The antibodies (or globulins or whatever it actually was) will hopefully make his case of pneumonia an easier one, if that is what he has.

Poor chap.

And especially because he's been in hospital so often that they have a hard time getting a blood vessel for an infusion or a blood draw or whatever; much of the likely surface area (hands, head) is already covered in scars.