On Tuesday Margaret had her second visit by a Blue Care carer to help shower her. As usual she was worried that the carer would be nasty and even more worrying that she would not like Louis. When the carer, also an RN, arrived she was greeted by Louis and she said, "Hello gorgeous!" so she was OK. In fact, as usual with Blue Care, they treated her very gently and Margaret was soon tucked up in bed again. She rests most of the day and still gets exhausted by the slightest exertion and takes a few minutes to regain her breath.
Wednesday was my normal Computer Club day and as my sister, Sue, could not fly out fron England until next week due to the Volcanic Ash problems in Europe, I took the opportunity to attend. Helen looked after Margaret while I was away for just over four hours. At the meeting the normal leader was away due to medical tests and her backup was also a bit under the weather so I gave and impromptue talk on Wiki On a Stick and used it to give a short tutorial on Using The Color Tools in The Gimp. It actually went down quite well as I covered the basics of what is often seen as a complex subject. It made a great change to be dealing with technical problems and interacting with an interested audience. If I can make it, I shall cover the Selection Tools next month.
The major worry with Margaret is that she appears to get very upset when I am not around. Helen says that she begins looking for me about ten minutes after I go out and does not settle until I come home. This could be a problem when Helen goes back to South Australia in a just over a weeks time as I normally leave Margaret on her own while I walk Louis or go shopping. She can contact me on my mobile phone but when she fell at Easter she was not near a phone nor did she have her mobile phone with her. I have set up her mobile with one touch dialing to my mobile and it is on a lanyard to hang it around her neck but she forgets. I suppose I shall just have to phone her every quarter of an hour or so to let her know I am still around.
On Thursday we intended to take Margaret out to lunch but she had one of her accidents and decided that she could not make it after all. We had an alfresco lunch on our back patio, take away roast chicken, salads, mashed potatoes and gravy plus chips for me and Helen. This was washed down by a bottle of champagne (the EU wont be upset if I put it all in lower case!).
Margaret has been going to bed at 8.30 pm and we get her settled by 9.00 pm. She takes a sleeping pill, ducene and some painkillers, parecetamol, and normally sleeps reasonably well.
This morning she woke up very confused and told Helen that she was late and had to have shower before going to work. She is gradually having more of these episodes of confusion and last night asked when Easter was so she could eat her Easter Egg.
Later today she has another shower courtesy of Blue Care, actually we do pay a nominal fee for their services.
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