A short visit

Todays visit was short. I bumped into Steve as I was on my way to the hospital and he decided to come with me. His comment was 'I've got the time now and it gets it over with' He is finding this a real strain.

Edna was pleased to see him. The other day she mentioned she had heard someone saying she needed a new or better bed. Today she has an air mattress not an ordinary one.So I guess they are concerned about pressure sores. The good point is she had heard and remembered correctly about her bed. I will take all the good points I can get

She wanted her hair cut . This has been an issue for sometime. But at least today she let me talk to the nurses to arrange it. But what she wanted was for me to bring some money in for her so SHE could book it and pay for the hairdresser herself. She doesn;t understand (or want to understand) that the system is the nurses pay the hairdresser so the money has to go to them to keep in the safe. So she wasn't too happy about that.

She was panicking about running out of money in her main account. She has 30,000 plus in that account ffs.

I cut the visit shorter than I would have done because I could see Steve was anxious to leave. He does find it distressing visiting her. She is so obviously unwell both physically and mentally.

Yet again at one point she said she wasn't bothered about anything any more. She was also complaining about eating making her very breathless . This has been her excuse for not eating much for months - since way before Alan died IIRC. It has been some time since she has mentioned it though. Not sure what that means or why it is an issue again. It could be that she is looking for a new excuse not to eat or it could be she has been trying to eat a normal sized meal and it genuinely has made her breathless. That could actually be a good sign. I will just have to wait and see what happens.

Brenda (her old neighbour) rang this morning and said she would try and visit her now she is back in West Heath. When I told Edna she was very unimpressed. Its worrying that she doesn't want to see an old friend like her.