Day 21. Saturday 16^th June, 2007.

Rosemary woke up with a splitting headache which was resistant to Paracetamol and she had to take some Co-codonal (Paracetamol with 8% codeine) to kill it. We both got up very late in the morning, well, in truth, early in the afternoon!

Zena and John collected Mum at 2.30. Mum looked as right as rain but did say that she didn’t start the day well. Her blood pressure was high again and the nurses gave her twice her normal dosage of blood pressure control pills which brought her blood pressure down quite quickly but made her feel ‘off’ for a while. Later on she felt OK again. The doctor checked her over and decided that the pacemaker was working too much and lowered its cut in setting from 50 beats per minute to 40. Mum lasted the day perfectly OK, sitting up for dinner (tender lamb shanks, creamed potatoes, leeks, courgettes and mushrooms) and drinking a couple of glasses of red wine as though nothing unusual had happened for ages. Off to bed by 10 pm!