Well that was an eventful morning! Was supposed to be taking Mum out to shop and she phoned and said she didn't feel well enough. Backache and headache. So I did all her shopping and took it over. She was up and dressed and didn't look too bad at all.
Yesterday she said she had had to come home from her luncheon club in someone else's "blue jacket with dirty cuffs" as she thinks someone took her gold one. I quietly went to look in her hall this morning and there was the gold jacket and no sign of a blue one! She's convinced it's not hers even though I know it is so I've brought it home to wash. I also brought her dressing gown which was grubby and the jumper she was wearing which had two stains. This is not like her at all as she's usually meticulously clean.
Then ... praise the Lord .. I found the second missing sock complete with money in the third bedroom.
. I looked in the bed where she found the first one ...nothing. At the foot of the bed was a rolled up satin throw and matching cushions and I undid the throw and the sock dropped to the floor. I checked in her sock drawer that the first sock was still there and took the pair and contents down to her.
I counted out the £200 and wrote it down for her and she was pleased she had the pair again! Not bothered at all about the money though. I reminded her that she and brothers had said it was the cleaner and she was adamant that nobody said such a thing.
I threw out some potatoes which were 6 weeks old and were in her fridge and then a half eaten cake from the pantry which was a month out of date.
I told her I would heat her a stew and dumpling ready meal I'd brought and her microwave is quite complicated so I asked her to show me how to set it and she's forgotten that too so I suspect she is not eating properly. For breakfast she says she had a crackerbread but she says she woke up starving at 3 am and came down and had hot milk and cornflakes.
She ate all the stew and said it was good and then she wanted to go to bed so I took her up, all her newspapers, drink etc and she should sleep all afternoon.
She seems to be declining rapidly now. I will be very interested to see what the psycho geriatric assessment makes of her on Friday.