Chinese veg traybake; berries with coconut ice cream

Thank you so much for all your support and reassurance after yesterday’s post, and for the many suggestions of things to ask mum’s doctors about.

I’m very pleased to say that mum felt a bit better this morning, and a lot better by now. (Which is a terrible bit of English, but you take my meaning, I hope.)

I spent most of this morning playing with my Sims, forgetting that I had been notified of a problem with our landline. 25 irritated minutes and an online chat with a nice person in (I assume) India later, we’re now back in contact with the world. The many missed calls and messages I can now see will have to wait for tomorrow.

Dinner was a Simply Cook recipe box for a chicken traybake, but I left out the chicken and subbed in a courgette as mum generally prefers vegetarian meals. She reacted with a “ooh, that looks nice”, and took a generous portion which she ate with enthusiasm. I can’t tell you how relieved that made me.

Afterwards mum had – of course – coffee ice cream, and I asked her to fetch me one of my tubs of ice cream while she was getting hers from the outside freezer. I was expecting something chocolatey, but she came back with a coconut and passionfruit one I had forgotten I had. I topped some scoops of it with fresh berries, and it was delicious. I may have to grab something chocolatey before I go to sleep, though. 🤭

Now I’m sitting chatting to mum, who’s struggling to remember the past few days and is a little bewildered that I’m so happy and relieved when she hums or sings along with music on the tv, something she only does when she’s happy.

Tomorrow we have someone coming to the house to do an ECG on mum. Amazingly, she’s almost completely unconcerned about it: maybe the whole anxiety thing is improving more than I thought.

And on that highly encouraging note, I’ll say goodnight and go back to my little virtual person, who’s probably wondering when I’m coming back so she can come out of the bathroom. Or at least she might do if she was real.