Iona was here for much of today, suffering from food poisoning, so this altered our plans for a long afternoon visit. My brother and Liz went in mid-afternoon and found Isobel awake and more responsive than on their last few visits.

I went in at 5pm. Isobel had only a pot of balanced supplement for breakfast but ate it all. She was very sleepy and this continued until lunchtime when she could not be woken at all. She did however have several drinks early in the day. It seems she missed lunch as well yesterday. At teatime I fed Isobel her main course and strawberry yogurt dessert. Both of these were handled without any difficulty and fairly quickly. She drank a beaker of blackcurrant squash fairly quickly, but was tired by the end of it and dozed off after. I left at a quarter past six.

After dropping Iona back at her house I returned to the Centre at 7.45pm. Isobel was dozing lightly and woke as I moved the plants back to their overnight positions. The zygocactus is looking splendid but will probably fade in a few more days. Isobel drank half of a beaker of orange squash, then ate most of a pot of balanced supplement, then finished the drink and finally polished off the pot of supplement. We talked for a while, Isobel was able to make some yes or no responses. She confirmed she was not in pain. I read a long section of her book to her. I manipulated and massaged Isobel's right arm, I am certain now that there is significant muscle wasting in the arm. Isobel drank another beaker of orange squash; she has not been short of fluid today! There seems to be a tendency to miss lunch more often, but whether it is a long term trend or just the day to day variation we have been seeing for some months is difficult to judge at the moment. Isobel fell asleep and I left at 9.20pm.