Some good news

 Two bits of good news yesterday....firstly, the car passed the MOT with just 2 advisories, neither of which needs immediate attention.  To say I was surprised is an understatement.

Then in the afternoon Hannah, the psychologist from the Memory Assessment team, rang following her holiday.   She said that the brain scan showed no signs of stroke, bleed on the brain or any other, what she called, major incident, so that's good.  She said they need to do more in-depth tests, requiring a senior psychologist (she's a junior one) to ask more specialised questions and do more physical and mental tests, which will need to be done at their clinic.  Fine, we have no problem with that.  There's a waiting list for appointments (isn't there always?), but luckily husband is No. 2 on the list, so he should receive an appointment letter within the next couple of weeks, for an appointment in July.  They want me to be there as well, to provide my insight and say whether or not I agree with things husband says.

Hannah also said she's now put a note on husband's file to say that if any of the team need to ring us, they are to make sure that I'm here, so I can listen in to the conversation, in view of the fact that husband doesn't remember much of what's said to him.

So bit of a relief there, at least we know now that an appointment is coming.

I did all my baking yesterday morning, it all came out well and is now frozen, I just need to make a couple of cottage pies and some cheese scones and perhaps sausage rolls, then that'll be plenty of ready meals and snacks to take to the caravan when we go back in a couple of weeks.

Husband's been looking to buy (yet another) car - he changes cars so often it's become a standing joke amongst neighbours/friends.  I couldn't really care less about cars so long as they work, don't cause endless problems and don't cost us loads of money!  However, husband is never satisfied with whatever he buys, for umpteen different reasons, so he's always looking for something better.  As we don't have loads of money to spend on a new (to us) car, it's always likely that whatever he gets will have the odd problem.  Well, yesterday afternoon he showed me another car online - on ebay actually - that he liked the look of.....honestly, sometimes I really think he's taken leave of his senses, it was so wrong on so many levels, I couldn't fathom why he thought it might be a good idea.  The mere fact that it was being sold on ebay was a big enough reason not to buy it, in my opinion.....oh and the seller lives around 40 miles away, so it's not like we could easily go view it - or husband get it back home!  It also had numerous other bad points (to my mind) - in fact I couldn't really think of any positives.

And until we know what, if anything, is going on with husband's severe short term memory loss, I don't think it's a good time to be thinking about buying another car - in the worst case scenario, he may not be able to carry on driving long term.

Husband made a start on one of the jobs on the 'to do' list - he was going to cross it off the list but I said no as he's not yet finished the job....if he crosses it off, it's very likely it will remain unfinished!  He did get on and do another small job - cooking some offal for Betty.  As I now hardly ever eat meat other than minced chicken and turkey (and certainly no offal), I can't stand the look or smell of it anymore, so husband is happy to prepare and cook it - and sneak a few mouthfuls himself.

I haven't eaten beef, lamb, pork or gammon since October last year and don't miss it at all.  I eat very small amounts of bacon, chopped up in something for the flavour, the occasional sausage (again, usually chopped up in a recipe or as sausage rolls, rather than whole sausages).  I use chicken or turkey mince in things like cottage pie, risotto or a pasta bake, minced beef or lamb tastes far too fatty to me now.  We had a KFC takeaway a couple of weeks ago, I used to love that.....however, the best bit about it for me this time was the coating, I didn't like the actual chicken much, I gave that to Betty.  I mostly eat fish - 3 or 4 times a week, a minced chicken thing perhaps once every 10 days, the rest of the time it's vegetarian - homemade.  Having tried several different 'meat substitute' type things, I have to say I don't really like any of them, other than Linda McC sausages.  So I'm not going to be turning back into a carnivore anytime soon, I'm very happy with my way of eating.  I do still cook meat for husband, although even he eats less meat now.