I realise that I haven't blogged since Tuesday. This is because things are reasonably quiet at present. I had to see my own GP later on Tuesday who is C. Margaret's GP is A. They have been in practice together since before we came to Noosa twelve years ago. C is an Indian but when asked by a nosy patient where he came from he said, "Wimbledon!". When A asked me once if front of C why I went to C and not him I couldn't help replying, "I prefer London boys."
Anyway, C carried out his three monthly checks and everything is OK with me and i will see him again in June.
Margaret has spent the week in a very confused state and also in a great deal of pain. The morphine patch keeps the worst at bay and I can only give her paracetamol to help take the edge of anything else. Codeine would be better but this is a sure way to accelerate the drop off in renal function. There is not much for her to do except watch TV. She appears to have stopped reading again. One problem with watching TV is that in her confused state she has began to believe the commercials.
On Wednesday I managed to get Margaret to sit up for a while, while I gave her bedroom and en suite a good clean. I washed all the tiles, shower area, toilet and sink in the en suite down with an antiseptic proprietary cleaner and washed the floor. In the bedroom I vacuumed and dusted then I used our carpet cleaner to clean the carpet and the hall carpet between her bedroom and the kitchen. It gets quite badly stained but really came up well. When Margaret went back to her room she complained that the toilet was dirty and I should have used "Easy Off Bam" the latest wonder toilet and tile cleaner. Also the mirror was streaky because I hadn't used the new mirror cleaning product. She got quite annoyed when I said that I was satisfied with what I had used. Incidentally the mirror streaks were due to the toothpaste splashes which I hadn't quite cleaned off. A spay with water and methylated spirits wiped of with paper soon fixed that.
Thursday was Louis's turn and I spent the morning after doing my shopping clipping his coat. I don't do a very good job but at least it is short and clean. He is very patient as it takes about ninety minutes to do. Thursday evening Margaret said that she wanted to go out to lunch at that Indian Restaurant we visited a few weeks back. She wanted exactly the same to eat. I said that that was OK but I would like some thing different. She said that she wanted Tandoori Chicken and Prawns. This presented a problem. Last time she had the chicken and I had the prawns and we shared. This time I wanted a proper curry. Margaret went ballistic. She was going to have both and she would pay. She didn't understand that this would mean buying two main courses for her and one for me and while I don't really care about the cost I knew that she wouldn't eat even one course on her own. In the end I agreed that we would buy chicken and prawns and I would leave my curry for another day.
Friday morning she had forgotten my back down and was still mad at me it took some time to calm her down and tell her that she could have what she wanted. At 11.00 am she called me to tell me that she didn't feel well enough to go out anyway. Instead I said that we could have some frozen packs of Thai curried prawns for dinner. These are vary mild but quite tasty. Unfortunately when she tasted them she said that they were too spicy and left the lot and had a cheese sandwich instead! I enjoyed mine
.A week or so back a long standing friend J phoned to ask us to come and see their new retirement villa and their new little dog. She and B have been friends since January 1961 when they came out from England. B worked for EMI and their subsequent owners since 1953 when I also started with them. J and B followed us to the Sunshine Coast in 1999 and have lived about 55 km away. They are our age and have sold their house and just moved to a retirement village where they can take pets but not replace them when they die. Their old dog, Pancho, is fourteen years old so they bent the rules and got a younger dog the day before they moved in and thus have a ready made replacement for Pancho before he dies. The funny thing is that Pancho has has a new lease of life with the younger dog on the house. Margaret was quite rude to J and told her that they could not have as nice a home as our other friends M and G whose new villa we visited a month or so ago. J was very good and didn't take offense. We left it that we would get in touch this weekend to arrange a time over Easter for the visit. Since than Margaret has been on at me everyday about phoning J. She actually thought that this weekend is Easter.
Last night Margaret had gone to sleep when she had to get up in a hurry and stagger to the bathroom. Fortunately she made the tiled area before exploding. I was still wake and heard her call out. I rescued her from the mess and got her to sit on her shower chair while I cleaned and disinfected the en suite. Then I helped her shower and got her into a clean nightie and back to bed. She was very upset and took a little while to settle down. I returned to my TV program which I was watching in time shift mode. It actually finished at 10.15 pm but it was gone 11.00 pm before I finally got to watch the ed.
One other bad bit of news is that the BBC has announced that my favourite TV show, "The Bill" is to end after the next series. That means only two more series to watch in Australia.
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