A difficult day today; Isobel has been very unhappy and uncooperative. She was very tired last night and slept through to half nine this morning. Once awake she was not willing to leave the bed and took breakfast upstairs. Afterwards she refused her tablets. For an hour afterwards she refused to move, go to the toilet or wash. Inevitably she was then found to have wet the bed (the incontinence pants now come with a helpful note of the surprising large amount they will absorb, but they just become overwhelmed).

Iona came over later and went out with Euan to do shopping. She went home in the late afternoon. Isobel was still refusing her tablets.

Isobel was very tired and spent the day either lying on the sofa downstairs or in bed. Richard and another of Euan's friends came over to finish planning their holiday in Germany next month, so our curry dinner was rather later than planned but none the worse for that. Isobel washed the curry down with two half glasses of red wine and seemed to enjoy it. Afterwards she took her medicine without any fuss. Her balance and walking was poor again today. Isobel's conversation was often incomprehensible, worse than for several days but still with brief periods of clarity. She spent much of the day denying that there was much wrong with her and insisting that she was able to make appropriate decisions about her care - understandable but not unfortunately correct. There are still worrying problems with attempts to clean things. This morning I left her on the toilet for about a minute while I put soiled bed linen in the washing machine and found that she had poured shampoo all over the floor. The most dangerous bottles are out of her reach but whatever she wants, she assumes the first bottle she grabs contains it. We are now at the stage where unless Isobel is asleep or settled watching television or a DVD she cannot be left for even a few seconds. This evening Isobel again said that she was too tired to speak to her mother on the telephone.