Chapter 36 - A Monotonous Week

This week was so "normal" that I forgot to keep notes about Thursday evening & all of Friday. I can only presume those hours were much as earlier in the week. Each night she went to bed & to sleep at times ranging between 1am & 4am. We have noted that only infrequently does she need assistance rising from bed or chair - perhaps that is an improvement. She had expressed interest in the hype about the "Da Vinci Code"; it was still showing locally so we went to a movie in I don't know how long on Tuesday afternoon after she had been to KYB. She dozed through part of the showing; had difficulty following the plot, what with the flashbacks attempting to establish the causes of events; she had not read the who-done-it as I had. On Wednesday afternoon she slept for an hour & a half. Her VHS tape copying project was short lived when her copy of "South Pacific" (our personally very symbolic movie) caused our VCR to fail; a case of a tape contaminated with foam plastic crud after having been loaned. Much cleaning & adjustments failed to revive it; the VCR out of the van was also faulty. I resurrected two defunct VCR's out of the ceiling and by combining innards was able to make a working unit by Friday. The house had scattered VCR carcasses everywhere. My theory about spicy foods may be just a theory. On Wednesday I made a chicken curry of sufficient quantity but of little calorific value to last us 3 nights. The flavour was about as intense as a chicken stew. It had no effect on her I thought. Then yesterday we shopped at Aldi to save a small amount of pensioners' funds (I also bought a "toy" for my PC so I can listen to ABC FM as a change to BBC music programmes & that over-compensated for any imagined savings). Then last evening, Saturday, at 9:30pm she came to my dungeon to say she was so tired she would go to bed. Earlier she had said that her 6pm meds had not kicked in & that she felt cold. She needed to walk around the dining table to dispel restlessness & stiffness. Then the nightly horrors began; 11:30pm tremors woke her so a toilet visit, 1:30am woke very stiff & to the loo again, 3am woke stiff with one arm "asleep" - midnight meds not kicked in - headache above right eye (she said she had this for 2 days without telling me) - walked about the house for awhile & took 2 Panodol, 5am to the loo again, 7am woke to the alarm for first meds, then 8:15 she woke me to get up so that we might make it to church early. She was able to shower herself but needed assistance with all her clothing. We made it to church, although she was shakier than usual. I can only wonder about my curry, even one so mild.