A Busy Day Ahead

Yesterday morning the Blue Care RN came to visit Margaret. The main purpose of these fortnightly visits is provide Margaret's GP and me with an independent overview of Margaret's physical and mental status. The RN checked the dressing on Margaret's leg where Louis had caused the skin tears and passed them as OK to left uncovered. We are to let the steri-strips fall off on their own. She was concerned a bit by Margaret's appearance and thought she looked a bit jaundiced. We will keep and eye on her to see if it gets any worse.

Throughout the RN's visit Margaret was very confused. She is included in the discussion but she was off on completely different topics and at times the RN had to apologise to Margaret for laughing out loud. She explained that at least Margaret could see that she was nor being nasty. The RN thought that Margaret's mental state had deteriorated over the last few weeks.

A good point of the visit is that the RN now thinks that Louis could remain in the room next time provided he is on a lead and kept under control. As it was another hot day I had locked him in Margaret's air conditioned bed room and he barked continuously throughout the visit.

During the morning I had contacted Margaret's ophthalmologist's office and managed to make an appointment for Margaret to have she state of her eyes checked this Friday the 4th. I also managed to book our car in for a service later today. The means that we have a busy day.

Last night I had another of those moments when Margaret upset me by her continuous chatter during a TV show which I was particularly interest in. Fortunately I kept myself under control and asked her if I could just watch the programme for thirty minutes without interruption. Margaret replied that she was watching it too and she wasn't interrupting it. Oh well I shall have to use our Hard Disk Video Recorder to provide time shift so that I can pause the programme to respond to Margaret and start again where it left off. I use this facility a lot when Margaret goes to bed early and I have to check her several times before she finally drops off. She went to bed at 8.30 pm

This morning I have to visit my GP for my three monthly check up for Type Two Diabetes and renew my one prescription. These visits are usual followed up by blood and urine tests. Te n this afternoon I have to drop the car off for a service. As the garage is 15 km away in Cooroy and it will take about 90 minutes I shall have to take Margaret with me. After dropping off the car we can go to the local RSL Club – for the non Aussies RSL equals Returned Services League and most are open to non – service members. The Cooroy RSL has a nice cafe area where we can get tea and coffee while we wait.