My Birthday

Before I get to my birthday I should finish off Sunday evening.

After dinner Margaret wanted to watch Wuthering Heights on TV but soon after it started she got up and wheeled herself into her bedroom. After quite some time she returned all dressed with hat and sunglasses. She demanded to be taken to the shops and got very upset when I pointed out that it was nearly 9.00 pm, the shops were shut and we had been to the shops earlier that day. It took some time to settle her down and even then she was like a Jack in the Box getting up and wheeling herself around the house. Finally about 10.30 pm I got her to go to bed and to take her medication which includes Valium which seemed to settle her down and I was able to switch off her light and get myself off to bed about 11.30 pm.

Now Monday was my 73 rd birthday and as usual I got up at 5.00 am, got Margaret a cup of tea as she was awake, had my breakfast and walked Louis with J. I got home just after 7.00 am and reminded Margaret that she had to go and have a blood test. We got to the collection centre and had quite a wait before it was Margaret's turn. The nurse could not get any blood out of Margaret's right arm and said the left arm looked worse. This looked like being a problem as Margaret's kidneys were pretty bad and her GP wanted to see how they were progressing. The nurse said that there was another collection centre about 6 km away where there was a better qualified sister. Fortunately this sister managed to locate a cooperative vein in Margaret's left arm and we will get the results today at 12.00 noon.

All this time Margaret had not mentioned my birthday. After Margaret's breakfast I went shopping and while I was out our daughter phoned to wish me happy birthday and spoke to Margaret instead. She then got me on my mobile. Margaret had been surprised by Helen's call and even then did not connect it with my birthday.

Later in the day we went out to lunch at Trios at Noosa Marina. On the way I asked Margaret if she knew why we we going out to Trios she replied it was to look at the fish in their aquarium. I mentioned my birthday and she replied," I thought that was yesterday!" I am still waiting for a Happy Birthday from her.

We had an excellent lunch, both having duckling and went home to snooze the afternoon away.

The rest of the day was quiet but I had the now, normal, problems settling down Margaret to cleep and bed about 11.00 pm

Tos the start has been normal and while Margaret is resting after breakfast I can catch up with this blog.

We go to see Margaret's GP later this morning.