Shopping trip

It happened!! It nearly DIDNT happen and she needed some persuasion, but I got her to Sainsbury and she was able to pick her own shopping.

We had one or two 'discussions'. She bought more tomatoes than I thought she needed and she insisted she does herself grilled tomatoes. Hmmm. She also bought some cooked chicken legs and again insisted they were part of her regular shopping. Again hmmmmm. And she got a dozen eggs insisiting she really liked them and often had 2 eggs a day. Even bigger hmmmmm as I know she has only got through 4 eggs in 9 days.

In the car on the way home she was talking about her friend Doris and siad she had heard she had died. This is a discussion we first had years ago. I commented that I was glad she had remembered that and told her about all the times in hopsital she was convinced Doris was there with her. Is this a sign that her cognition is improving as a result of treatment?

Getting her back into her flat proved challenging and at one point she nearly fell. When we got back into her flat thewre was no sign of her meal. I laft a message for the warden and the home care team to find out if it had come and been stored somewhere. It is possible that knowing she was coming out she cancelled the meal - but forget she cancelled it. She kept saying that next time we went out she would cancel so we could have lunch out.

I have the horrible feeling the net result of whaetever has gone wrong will be that she doesnt have a proper meal today. I'm betting that if the home care team offewr to make her something she will declare she can manage to get herself something to eat.

No doubt I will find out tommorrow.

On the whole a succesful day - and I know Edna enjoyed it.