Wednesday's blog.

This is a late posting of Wednesday's blog as I got back very late from my brother's after drinking a lot of wine.

I went in to see Isobel just after four o'clock. She ws in a cheerful and relaxed mood. Her speech was not as good as it had been on Sunday and Monday, but was still not bad.

I put the rest of the cards up in her room and wrote her cards for the staff. I took a card down to Christine in room 25 who turned out not to be the woman I had thought she was.

Isobel had beans on toast for tea - two rounds and a mountain of beans, for once the meal took more than a few seconds to feed her. For desert she had strawberry mousse. About half an hour later she ate an orange and a bar of chocolate. I forgot to bring in the grapes, a pity as Isobel had finished those Dallas had brought in the previous day.

I believe that Isobel had a slight headache. She indicated some discomfort, but of course as soon as we started discussing this she denied it was at all bad. I had a word with the nurse before I left and she will be cross examined again about this when she has her mug of tea and biscuits in the evening. The position that Isobel indicated was high on the right hand side of the head, this is away from the original tumour site. I went home just after 6pm, for dinner with Keith and Liz.

There will be no especial arrangements for Christmas day for Isobel, apart from the Christmas menu of course. There is nothing that she wants apart from to be disturbed as little as possible. I don't expect she will join the other residents for dinner, but that is her choice. I expect I will be in there for a couple of long visits and the children will cook our steak dinner at home, it will not be like any other Christmas.