A Poor Start

Last night Margaret was very confused. We watched TV after dinner. There was no real conversation. Margaret brought up a couple of things full of “what's its” and “what's his names” but when I tried to find out what she was talking about she just said it was nothing and wouldn't interest me. She is good with the here and now but useless in relating things from just a few days ago.

She went to bed after Four Corners (an ABC current affairs show) but doesn't appear to really understood it. She was quite difficult to settle as she still cant work out how to get into bed and arrange her Teddies etc.

Today has started with her usual claim that she has to be early and was up and about at 6.00 am before I took Louis for his morning walk. I told her that her appointment with her GP was at 2.30 pm so she could settle back down. At present, 7.40 am she has had her breakfast and is taking her medications. She is sitting on her bed watching TV. In the last five minutes she has called out several times causing Louis to bark and come and get me from my bedroom where I am typing this. The first couple of times she denied making any noise. The next time she was getting up to get ready to go to the doctors and finally she was choking on one of her tablets. I told her to drink some water and the problem was fixed.

It looks like being a long day.