I had intended to carry out a bit of external house cleaning. We have a multitude of spiders and other creatures living around our windows and stuck to the walls. When the time came I decided it was much too hot and humid for outside work and anyway the spiders kept the other bugs under control.
Margaret was feeling quite well so about 10.30 am I got her dressed and took her out to the shops for morning tea and a little shopping. Margaret wanted to buy some cosmetics. One of the side effects of continuous treatment with steroids is that her, once, flawless pale British facial skin has now a fine network of veins across it. Margaret bought herself some foundation makeup which would cover these up. After morning tea and dough nuts for Margaret and coffee and dough nuts for me we looked around some other shops and came home in time for lunch.
Margaret was very tired and I helped her to get undressed and put on a clean nightie so she could rest. Unfortunately one of the other little features of Margaret's confusion returning is her obsession with time and appointments. She got up several times to check her next medical appointments. These are blood tests on 4th Jan, specialist appointment 6th Jan and GP appointment 7th Jan. All these are clearly written on our new 2010 calendar but she checks it every couple of hours and then checks with me that they are accurate.
Margaret went to bed at 9.30 pm and had a good night's sleep. When she woke up this morning she was quite breathless but now appears to be OK. We have a long weekend ahead when the only medical support is the hospital emergency centre so I hope she lasts out to Monday without any crisis. Her feet are quite swollen in spite of the restricted fluid intake and this is not a good sign.
K in South Australia tells me that he is not running a restaurant.
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