Alice loved her food. She ordered things out of the ordinary and was keen on taste. I’m glad I found this image because my memory was that it seemed cruel at the time that she lost the ability to swallow and could not enjoy food but had to be fed through a tube.
Less than one month before her death here she is enjoying an outdoor meal at a garden center. I do remember she took ages to eat it and may have got a little upset at her swallowing but here she is in the sunshine. The feeding tube must have been fitted within the next week or so.
Update: Jennie reminded me that Alice couldn’t eat the meal after all and Alice did get upset. Alice had eaten well in the previous days but then it became difficult and Alice needed a feeding tube.
Sorry to have misled, perhaps my optimism, the sun and Alice with a plateful of food in front of her skewed my memory, we had successfully gone through all sorts of trials previously by being optimistic and just bouncing over things but there came a point where that no longer worked and we were lost.