Things moving maybe?

Finally today I have had contact from the social workers. Unfortunately they missed me but I have returned their call and left a message on the ansaphone, So hopefully I will get some information tommorrow.

Luckily Edna doesn't to remember that her discharge is being planned. She isn't fretting or threatening to discharge herself - even though her new next door neighbour is VERY noisy compared with 'Doris' aka Diana. He wnew neighour is called Dorotjhy or Dot so I am hoping that doesn't casue confusion.

I feel quite depressed today. I have realised I don't know HOW much of what she tells me about her day is true. Probably very little. I have this vision of her in her own litle world, taking small bits of what she sees around her and weaving into the world she creates for herself. For instance today she told me that one of the sisters had been doing some paperwork when somone came by and took the pins out of her hair Edna said that she hadn't been able to pin it up again becasue she had no pins. I had seen that the sister had her hair down when I came in - which is unusal. A very few monents later she came by with her hair up and both Edna and I commented on how quickly she had got it pinned up. In her reply she excused herself for having it down at all but said she wasn;t actually meant to be at work at all.

So I think Edna saw her with her hair down, and 'invented' the story she told me to fit her nice comfy world. If anyone with experience of Alzheimers is reading this, do please comment if you feel I am thinking along the right lines. I think Edna needs security and continuity so anything that doesn't fit she will try and make it fit her own personal paradigm.

She is still very paranoid about her purse. She is convinced one of the staff took it, becasue he 'found' it in a place where she had already looked when it went missing

I am in despair about how to help her keep track of things important to her when she goers home. There is NO way she will cope with her medication.

I just hope the social worker has some good news for me tommorrow