'Have you been in touch with the renal unit?' 'Yes, I contacted them a while ago. They're going to arrange for him to be admitted. I think things are difficult over in the unit at the moment, but they say that they'll be able to find a place for him. I imagine things will stay troublesome until the new unit opens.' She paused, glancing at the patient. 'Hopefully, he'll only need the dialysis for a short time, until his kidneys recover.' 'It would help if we could get the new dialysis machine installed,' Mark murmured, 'but we need some ideas for additional fundraising.' He made a wry face. 'Shaun suggested that we all do a sponsored run, but I haven't been able to find that many people who are keen to take part.' Sarah wrote out a prescription for medication and handed it to the nurse who was checking drips and trying to make the patient more comfortable. She told Mark, 'You'd do better to hold some kind of garden fete. Now that the weather is improving, people are more inclined to go out and about, and you might find that they want to go somewhere where they can buy plants for the summer bedding, or look at things on craft stalls.
