Liz here. Just a quick update to say that after an anxious nailbiting day have had the most welcome telephone call from Marian to say that having come through the operation Alison is awake and smiling from ear to ear in her bed-she reckons it must be the drugs. I'm sure once she's well enough we will all be entertained with stories of pink elephants and purple dolphins not to mention kamakazee pigeons and delirious dentists! No other news on the op as yet but hey if Alison is smiling then the whole world smiles with her.x