Diary Sunday 15th May 2016

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A day that started well ended rather horribly. I thought it was going to be a casual relaxed day of not having much to do beyond online activity. I booked a ticket for a burlesque show in a few weeks just hours before receiving invites to a party for that very same night which I can’t get to now. I contacted an Amazon supplier over a wallet I ordered online months ago which though inexpensive, has not yet been delivered to me way past the estimated arrival date. The seller assures me that the post office says it certainly reached them so the delivery problem seems to be down to the postal services rather than the seller but all I'm given is a tracking code to follow this up for myself now. Annoying. Then things went really bad. I was looking a promising looking online publishing site when my mum’s health deteriorated alarmingly in unexpected ways. As readers will know from my diaries since March my Mum has a critical heart condition, but that was not what directly caused problems today. My sister, who is a nurse, visited to find my Mum looked more shaky on her feet than usual. My mum was also putting food out for the imminent arrival of her guests even though they are not expected until Tuesday. Though if asked she knew there are three days to go, she was still acting as if there were just hours to get a party buffet laid on for them. She is starting to get very confused at a sudden alarming rate. My mum has been barely eating since her heart attack, and her weight is down to barely six and a half stone, which is positively anorexic. She was trying to convince my sister that she feels fine when she (mum) ended up vomiting all over herself which is more worrying given that she has barely eaten. My sister rushed her to hospital in the car. Tests showed that the crisis wasn’t directly heart related – my mum’s kidneys have virtually shut down, possibly as a side effect to all her heart meds dehydrating her. The hospital have kept her in, hoping to get her kidneys starting up again by pouring lots of saline drip fluids into her and they are going to put her on dialisis - they kept her in - I am acutely aware of her time-bomb trigger sensitive heart crisis itself. The prognosis is far from good. Arthur Chappell