On Tuesday afternoon she received an e-mail from a friend in South Australia merely assuring her that they wanted to keep in touch. This lead to a couple of hours while Margaret tried to reply to it. I set up her e-mail account in the reply to sender mode and left her alone. An hour later she was on a totally different screen looking at Skype where her friend has been absent for many months so when she tries to contact them she gets the message that the friend is not responding or blocking her! Margaret took this to mean that her friend was trying to avoid her. It took me some time to retrieve the original friendly e-mail and show her that this was not so. Next I retrieved her draft reply, got her to finish it and sent if off. Up to now I have never read Margaret's personal e-mails but could help noticing that it said something like she didn't know how to contact them! followed by Love Margaret. I quickly sent the friend an e-mail letting them know that they had probably got a peculiar reply to theirs.
On Wednesday Margaret received a reply from her friend. She had accessed her e-mail account while I was walking Louis in the afternoon. She sat at her computer for several hours before I realised that she was upset. I thought it was due to my lack of interest in the game she tries to play on her computer but no, her friend had upset her. I asked how and she again said that they had blocked her from making contact - bloody Skype again. I helped her find the new e-mail and read it with her. It was friendly and chatty and apologized for not writing more often as they had had family staying with them because of problems arising from the Victorian Bush Fires early last year. They were moving soon to a new house over 100 km away. I read it to Margaret a couple of times but she is convinced that it was anti her and that communications with her friend had been blocked by the visiting family. They were building a house next door and there is a conspiracy to prevent her friend contacting her and vice versa. I thought I had cleared this up before we went to bed but she has just told me that come what may she was going to contact her friend and tell them - I haven't worked out what at present.
At present she has still the ability to switch on her computer and read her e-mails but she can't work out how to compose a new one and the address book is a mystery to her. Twelve months ago she used to received and reply to e-mails with no difficulty and also used Skype whenever friends or relatives were available. Now I dread her switching her computer on because she either gets very annoyed because she can't understand how to play the Sims and I wont assist her or she gets lost in her e-mails.
On the medical side Margaret has an increasing of episodes of incontinence and is feeling quite uncomfortable. I have had to increase her fluid intake from 1.2 Lt/day to about 1.6 L/day and this coupled with the diuretics could be removing Sodium from her system once again. She has blood tests on Monday next and sees he specialist two days later.
We did get out to lunch yesterday and also to the shops were she was fitted for new bras. She can't manage normal back fastening bra clips and has difficulty with pull over ones which she also finds uncomfortable. The proprietor of a local lingerie shop helped her find some with front fasteners which she can manage herself. While she was trying them on she nearly fell over and staggered through the changing room curtain to a rack of underwear. Luckily the proprietor caught her and put her back in her wheelchair before she wrecked the place.
Louis on Margaret's Bed after his clip
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