Thank you for letting me know that you didn't go to Nantucket, 
because I think perhaps I should have help.

a) Sabine has never spoken to me. I haven't seen her for weeks.
I infered from Nathaniel's silence before he left, that Sabine
would continue to bring me, as he had been doing, unpredictable 
amounts of food at unpredictable times twice a day. I don't know 
what if any are her intentions in this regard.

b) My ability to walk- and even to stand - is marginal and is deteriorating.
I have stopped trying to make the bed, to clean the floor, to wash eating
utensils. I don't know for how long I will continue to be able to get to the 
toilet to move my bowels.

c) I will need food. I don't know whether I should order it on the Internet
and ask Sabine to bring it upstairs, or to ask you, or to try to crawl 
downstairs to get it myself.

d) At what juncture, if ever, should you (or I myself) try to hire help from
non-family members? And if so whom, and how?

e) Tomorrow I expect food delivered by Amazon.com. When it arrives, I will
e-mail you and ask you to bring it upstairs.

f) Thank you.