The first part of the night passed quietly apart from a series of interruptions between 1am and 2.30am. Just before 6am the bed was wet and this started a period of constant lifting onto and off of the commode that lasted until 8am, after which Isobel slept for an hour.

Iona came over while Jon was playing football and stayed until about half one. I retrieved a cat bed from the shed and cleaned it up for Iona's dog. John arrived after football. His team lost 4-1. They went home almost immediately.

Isobel had curry for dinner and did not want the rice pudding after. She slept from 9pm. I had told her that I would wake her at 10pm for her final tablet but she was soundly asleep so I decided to leave her until between 11.30pm and midnight when she could be put on the commode and have her pants changed for the night. At 11pm she was still fast asleep. At 11.15pm I was doing the washing up downstairs. Euan was in his room and heard a loud thud. Isobel had fallen to the floor near the bedroom door and was lying on her side. As this was on the opposite side of the bed to that on which she sleeps and on the other side of the room from the commode it is presumed that she fell while trying to walk out of the room. Although she was conscious she could not explain what had happened and appeared very dozy. She seemed to indicate that she had no pain in her body but was generally unresponsive to questions and appeared to drift off to sleep. I called the ambulance service and a paramedic arrived in less than ten minutes with an ambulance a couple of minutes after. Isobel was given a long examination while she lay on the floor, the conclusion being that vital signs were normal and she did not seem to have done herself any injury. Euan and I were interested to see that when the paramedic and ambulanceman manhandled Isobel back into bed they were no more sophisticated in their lifting technique than we were. The paramedic left once Isobel was on the bed. Isobel was further checked over once she was back on the bed and eventually was able to answer questions normally (actually rather better than normal). Isobel was still unable to explain how she had fallen or what she was trying to do at the time. It seems likely that she hit her head fairly hard on the carpet when she fell but no harm was done. By the time the ambulance crew had recorded their findings and left it was a quarter to one. Isobel had a leisurely mug of tea to wash down her final tablet and watched television for a while; then she was then settled down for the night with a fresh pair of pants. Within less than half a minute (I was still emptying the commode) Isobel had partly pulled her pants down and wet the bed. The changing of the bed took longer than usual as the mattress protector was not completely dry after being washed during the day and Isobel had to wait while it had another half hour in the tumble dryer. I stayed up a little longer waiting for the wet bedding to finish in the washing machine so that i could transfer it into the tumble drier in case of another accident. I finally got to bed at half past five.