Wednesday was another difficult day, but at least Isobel did not show any dramatic effect from a continued refusal to take any medicine.

The level of anti-fitting drug must be very low now, but no dramatic fits have occurred. Today not even minor ones were seen. Perhaps this suggests that the damage done in 2007 and early 2008 would not have caused serious fits? This would be very lucky considering the size of the tumour before surgery.

The withdrawal of dexamethasone (steroid) must now be taking effect but the result is difficult to judge. Today Isobel's speech was noticeably better at times. Balance was marginally worse.

Today there was no problem breakfasting; washing and dressing. On the way to Maidstone Hospital we stopped at Iona's for a few minutes. At Maidstone we had trouble parking close to the Oncology Unit, this was very unusual. Isobel would not use the wheelchair we had brought in the boot of the car and the walk of about two hundred and fifty yards took a long time. We had a wait of about fifteen minutes during which we drank coffee. Isobel decided to walk back to the car by the same route and not to take advantage of seats on the way for resting. The walk took about twenty minutes and by the end Isobel was barely able to move even with a lot of support.

We returned to Iona's for a very late lunch and reached home about 4pm. Isobel had chicken arabiatta followed by apple crumble for dinner. In between courses, Louisa dropped in for a quick visit. Isobel relaxed in the evening and watched television.