When I got to the ward tonight she was sitting there in a top, knickers and no skirt - but she had a sheet over her. Whe I asked why she told me (eventiually) that her clothes had got wet again. She said it was tea - and when I found her top from yesterday (in the drawer with her clean clothes) it had a tea stain on the collar. But the skirt and other things were all damp with no sign of tea - so I am not sure. However all of them are now in the wash.
I need to get some more clothes into the circuit. Lat time she wouldnt chnage her cothes at all. If she is going to keep needing changes every day I wont be able to keep up with the washing.
Sher seems to be totally disconnected from reality. She knows me, she knows who Steve and Tony are, and she remembers people like Sylvia, Len and June. But her accounts of events during the day were obviously totally unreal. An old favourite from her first stay at WHH has re-appeared. Apparebtly there was a baby born at the hospital last night.
I have given up trying to correct her unless the fantasy is something potential harmful. At one point she was wondering how Alam was copiing with the enws that Fosters is being partially knocked down. I did reassure her that it was all there when I went to get her clothes from the flat.
I am hoping her memory of a conversation with a doctor was also fantasy - because apparently he has said she may need an operation on her knee.
I feel very dispirited and tired. I couldnt concnetrate at work at all today and I am not sure if I should go in tomorrow or not
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