Iona called just before seven to collect her car, she went home for a long sleep after her holidays. Isobel was very tired this morning. She had wet the hospital bed during the night but this is much less of a problem than other beds. There were no undue problems in getting her ready for the hospice, but her balance was worse than ever. There was a little bit of a scene at the hospice when Isobel objected loudly to using the wheelchair, but a passing volunteer helped to convince her it was unavoidable.

I caught up on housekeeping tasks while Isobel was at the hospice. She had a good day at the hospice apart from the balance and walking problems. Although she had a three course lunch at the hospice she was hungry when she got home and had some cheesecake and biscuits. She settled down on the sofa and watched television.

For dinner Isobel had a very large helping of mince stew with carrots, onions, peppers, sweetcorn and peas with rice. Iona and Jon dropped in for a few minutes, Iona had brought presents from Corfu. She took away with her a black sack of washing. In the evening I had an e-mail from the vendor of the new washing machine to say that Alliance and Leicester had blocked payment, this was rather odd as all steps towards the purchase had gone smoothly, including the additional security check added a year or so ago. I phoned the bank's contact number to find that human beings had been replaced by an automated system requiring a different pin number to the one used for the purchase with my debit card. As this pin number had the same number of digits as my on-line access number I assumed that this would work. No such luck, but the bank offered to completely "suspend the account to avoid further difficulties"!!! I eventually found out that the bank did want the password, but had recently reset it themselves. Logging on with the reset password only brought a request to reset it on-line to another combination of my choice. The bank did not like my first choice, but eventually an acceptable one was found. I then phoned the bank again, the password worked, I was put through to the correct section, but just got a recorded message saying the line had closed for the night.

Isobel was very unhappy about sleeping in the hospital bed, there was some slapping again, this time Euan was the recipient. Eventually she settled down to sleep at about 11pm. Although Isobel said that she was very tired, she got out of bed every half hour or so for the next couple of hours, she was very confused and did not seem to know what she was doing.