Today was a better day, all things are relative.

Isobel woke at half seven with a wet bed. I cleaned up the bedroom while Isobel bathed, she then went back to bed for an hours sleep. There were no problems with breakfast and dressing and Isobel went to the hospice at about half ten.

I collected Isobel from the hospice at 3pm. The staff reported that she had a much better day than yesterday and seemed alert all the time. Her walking is greatly improved from yesterday, although this only means that she can cover about ten yards with slight support in a minute or so. On the way home from the hospice we diverted to drop off some medicines at Iona's house; as Iona was ill Isobel did not go in.

Pat Ball and Ursula arrived soon after four and stayed for an hour of so, chatting, drinking tea and coffee and eating walnut cake. I returned to Pat a book marked up as belonging to her son Chris, I think Isobel has had it since she was working at Whitehill School about six years ago! Pat was surprised as the book was actually hers, she had lent it to Chris. By the end of their visit, Isobel's speech had become very difficult to follow. After they had left, Isobel said that she was very tired and would have to lie down in bed. She stayed in bed afterwards for the rest of the day.

Isobel had fish, citrus slices, peas, sweetcorn, sprouts and broccoli for dinner, eating upstairs in bed. Afterwards she had rhubarb crumble. For a brief interval during the evening Isobels speech was much more coherent, but this lasted less than an hour. Isobel went to sleep at about 9.30 but woke up when Euan returned from Germany a little later. She then went to sleep again until just before midnight when she found lying across the width of the bed with her legs dangling over the side. The bed was wet again, so after she was cleaned up, while it was remade, Isobel sat downstairs on the sofa. There was a little punching, slapping, shouting and swearing as Isobel would not accept the bed was wet and needed to be changed. Remaking the bed took a little longer than expected as the other mattress protector was not completely dry after being washed today following the wetting episode this morning. If Isobel continues to refuse to use the hospital bed downstairs and the bed upstairs is getting wet more than once a day a third mattress protector will be needed. Isobel was back in bed and going to sleep just before 1am.