Well, we still have Isobel with us. There was a lot of behind the scenes activity today involving social services and the Ellenor trust; I won't go into details but the upshot is that Sarah Parker from the Ellenor Trust is coming to do a very long assessment with us at 9.30am tomorrow - it will take several hours at least! This sounds like an assessment for long term care and it may well be that we will be confronted by medical opinion that respite care is not enough. Personally I would settle for a week or two of respite care.

Isobel woke just at about half eight this morning. There were a number of "accidental" exits from the bed for one reason or another. These usually took place just after I had left the bedroom, not during the 90% of time I was with her. The strangest episode occurred when I went downstairs to make tea and breakfast. Isobel somehow got out of bed and made it to the bathroom, running a little water into the bath and getting into it. This is atypical, as she usually cannot get to her feet unaided. I could not get her out of the bath afterwards and had to ask Euan to help. By half ten I was exhausted from continual lifting of her and the bed was wet, this time penetrating to the mattress. Iona arrived and we moved Isobel downstairs for lunch, she lay on the hospital bed with very bad grace

Isobel remained in the hospital bed for dinner of two pizzas. Afterwardshe moved back upstaurs and was asleep by 11pm.