A visit to the GP

I took Margaret to see her GP yesterday morning. He was overjoyed to see Margaret almost back to normal mentally. He has become Margaret's friend as well as her GP over the last eleven years and was very upset with her poor mental state over the last few months. He said he hadn't expected her Sodium levels to come back to normal. We had a brief talk about her prognosis which while not critical, is pretty grim. She has a high risk of strokes, chronic kidney failure, adrenal gland failure, osteoporosis, rheumatoid and osteoarthritis a wrecked immune system and underlying it all the original cause Crohn's Disease. All this coupled with her high risk of falls makes life very interesting.

A side effect of Margaret's return to almost normality is that she now behaves like a rebellious teenager rather that a little child. She gets very annoyed with me when I try to assist her or she forgets things and says it's all my fault. For the last couple of months I have been putting her to bed with her teddies but now she tells me I fuss too much and wants to stay up late, I like going to bed between 9.00 and 10.00 pm and if I stay up much later am very tired next day. The last few days Margaret has stayed up until 11.00 pm and I can't settle until she is in bed.