It Looked Like Being a Nice Weekend

On Friday I tok Margaret somewhere different for lunch. Normally we frequent the local clubs for their wholesome and reasonably cheap lunches but this week we went to the Noosa Springs Resort to have lunch in their Relish Restaurant. We had the option of sitting on the balcony overlooking the Golf Course or sitting inside. Margaret wanted to sit inside. The lunch was very nice and surprisingly inexpensive. Margaret had difficulty choosing what to have so in the end I decided that she would like chicken breasts on Turkish bread with a nice dressing and salad accompanied by French fries. I had battered snapper and chips akna French fries.

I thought that Margaret was not going to eat her lunch but realized that she couldn't cut it up so I did it for her. While she was a little slow she ate the lot and had a couple of glasses of sparkling white wine, formerly known as Champagne before the French objected. The surroundings are very nice with lush sub-tropical trees and shrubs. Ten years ago this was the local sewage farm!!

Friday passed without any major dramas but Margaret was obviously getting more confused and went to bed early

Saturday was a good day. Margaret let me give her room and en-suite a good clean and I did all our washing and cleaned the rest of the house. In the afternoon I relaxed in the lounge reading a book on J.M.Barrie the author of Peter Pan. Margaret spent most of the day reading and watching TV.

Sunday was going to be a free day which I intended to use updating my computers and trying out a couple of Linux Operating Systems which I had downloaded. About 10.00 am I asked Margaret if she wanted a cup of tea which she declined and said she wasn't feeling well. Soon after she called out from her bathroom for help and I found that she had had an "accident". She was in a terrible mess and I had to clean her and the bathroom up and change her nightie. After putting her towels and nightie into the washing machine I finally got my tea and settled down to play on my computer at about 11.00 am. At about noon Margaret had another "accident" and I had to clean up and change her once again.

I spent the afternoon popping in and out to see Margaret and watching cricket on the TV. Margaret was very unhappy and said that I should put her in a home and that she didn't want me to visit her etc. By dinner time she had settled and had a light meal before watching TV for a little while.

Monday started well and I got my shopping done early. Margaret was confused and thought that she had to get up to either see the Doctor, be ready for the Blue Care RN visit or go and have her feet done. I told he that she had no need to worry about any of these. She looked at the calender and saw the doctor's appointment for next week and told me I was wrong. Finally she settled but mid morning she had another major "accident" - more cleaning up and washing. Later just before lunch she had another minor one. I suggested that she should take Lomotil to prevent diarrhea but she wouldn't. The rest of the day she just laid in bed until dinner time.

I had prepared a full roast lamb dinner. The leg of lamb had been cooked slowly in our Weber Kettle outside as it was a hot humid day. I prepared roast potatoes and greens with a nice thick brown gravy plus mint sauce. Margaret said it was too tough and only ate the potatoes and gravy followed by a fresh peach. I ate the lot and the lamb certainly wasn't tough. Louis looks like having lamb for lunch today and I am having lamb sandwich with pickles. Margaret can have what she wants.

Later in the evening our daughter H phoned to talk to Margaret and the one side of the conversation I heard was hilarious. After Margaret had finish I had a brief word with H who said that it was the most confusing conversation that she had ever had with Margaret and I translated a few things for her.

Later today, Tuesday, Margaret has her feet done. She is very confused about the whole thing and I asked me how she would get on the bus to get there! It took some patience to explain that we would go in the car and use her wheelchair. I have told her that she should shower at about 11.00am and we will have an early lunch about 11.45 am before leaving at about 12.15 pm to go to the podiatrist. It will be interesting to see how much she remembers