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Excellent news Rowen! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Take it easy, and don't try to do too much too soon.
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Banner Lady
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After many more adventures and delays this morning, Rowen is finally wending her way to the chillier parts of the deep south.
Her patrol car looks like something out of a Quentin Blake illustrated story book...piled high with disability equipment, suitcases, boxes, packages, two dogs, three cats, several kittens and two somewhat unravelled humans. I sincerely hope the story has a happy ending with everyone tucked up safe and warm somewhere nice tonight.
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Lothlorien
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Lovely news. I hope that pillow is just as you imagine it. That was what I needed at my sister's, my own pillow.
Take care, Rowen and may the healing continue.
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Gee D
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Did any of those kittens arrive chez BL? Best wishes and prayers for Rowen as she recuperates.
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Banner Lady
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No Gee D, the travelling zoo belongs to Rowens newest chauffeur. I always knew clergy had to be adaptable, but my estimation of Rowen's bravery has gone up considerably since this morning. And spare a prayer for whoever has car cleaning duty tomorrow!
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Gee D
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That's better then. I had visions of the manse being overrun with cats.
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Lothlorien
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Rowen, I hope your pillow was welcoming. That is a long trip for someone who has been in hospital for that length of time. Take it easy and luxuriate in being back there.
Take care and enjoy your friends and their kindness.
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Rowen
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My first weekend.... We broke the journey with friends in Mallacoota.
Home today.
The car was due for a proper cleaning now, so my friend's animals were ok.
So, tonight, MY real bed and pillow.
I will take things very easily for the next while. My hosts and my friend are plying me with toast, or anything else I want. WARM toast, HOT tea.... NOT like hospital t and t!
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Piglet
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Good to hear it, Rowen - look after yourself and don't try to do anything too soon. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Lothlorien
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Hospital toast is cold and leathery. Did you have trouble getting into 4WD? take good care, or perhaps I should say, enjoy the care from your friends.
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Festina Lente [make haste slowly] has to be the watchword for now, Rowen, however irking it might be - it really is worth it not to rush.
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You will be flooded with good advice, Rowen, so I send only a description: after hip replacements in two consecutive summers, I can report with conviction that enough painkillers, enough exercise, and particularly enough rest, will speed recovery in the pleasantest way possible.
Not forgetting enough TLC from friends and, and WINE. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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The OT gave me some lessons in getting out and in of the four wheel drive.... I was scared but she said it was quite small compared to some such cars she had worked with. I use a small stool or the curb. She was loathe to use the stool because after all, one found curbs everywhere. I was forced to explain that out in the country blah blah blah! She was astonished. "What, no curbs out there!?"
It is great to be home. Cold.but great.
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Originally posted by jacobsen:
You will be flooded with good advice, Rowen, so I send only a description: after hip replacements in two consecutive summers, I can report with conviction that enough painkillers, enough exercise, and particularly enough rest, will speed recovery in the pleasantest way possible.
Not forgetting enough TLC from friends and, and WINE.
And I can report that modern hip replacements are great – my right one's going well after 19 years, and my left revision after ten.
Go well!!
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Glad to hear that Rowen is now home and in good company. Our apologies to Rowen for not visiting you more often when she was in hospital , but the Marama and I both picked up colds which made us unwelcome at a hospital.
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Lots of fruit arriving at once to make jellies. Two cartons of quince juice in the freezer from the fruit that arrived just before I went on holiday. This week the dear folk at Whitianga sent me a box of crab apples that we'd admired on the tree opposite the church, and that provided 3 litres of juice ready to go. And the japonica windfalls that arrived yesterday had to be processed at once in two large lots – now dripping while I put my feet up and wait for help.
Anyone want some? All proceeds to Christian World Service (I'd better print some labels).
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Still gently living.... Friends here are helping out, which is delightful.
Today, one of them drove us up onto Mt Hotham. No snow, but very cold. We picnicked in the car, and then found a cafe for hot chocolate.
The local GP is pleased with things, four weeks after the operation, so that's a good start.
Next weekend, we will finally have my induction service here in the mountains. Important people couldn't fit me in, before my hospital stay, so we have had to wait til now. But it should be a great event, with a fair few folk coming. As it involves a massive drive for many, people are booking rooms in the motel and such like. We don't often see crowds out here in the church, so hooray for us!
Again, thanks for your well wishes!
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Lothlorien
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Thanks for friends and helpers and important folk too. May the induction go well and your work there be blessed. Preferably without massive fires.
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Rowen, glad you're home. There's nothing like your own bed.
I have a sinus infection. My Doctor reluctantly prescribed antibiotics, which I am reluctantly taking as a chest infection would be far worse. I spent most of today either reading or asleep, but need to get out tomorrow as I am having withdrawal from fresh fruit symptoms ![[Biased]](wink.gif) .
GG I would like to buy a couple of jars of japonica jelly, if you could bring them when next we meet please - I might even share with my brothers - if they are lucky.
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Piglet
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Glad to hear you got home safely, Rowen. Hope the induction service goes well and everyone has safe travels there and back.
Most importantly, look after yourself and don't try to do too much.
Remember - baby steps!
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Had a baptism at church this morning. An unfamiliar (to me) lady in front turned around and asked:
'Is it a joint christening today?'
Me: 'Not that I'm aware of'
She: 'Then you must be here for (name).
Me: 'No'
She: 'Then who are you here for?'
Me: 'We are part of the congregation'
She: 'The what?'
Me: 'We are here for Sunday worship that happens here each week and the christening is part of the service'
She: Looking completely baffled, turns and faces the front.
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Yes, I vergered at a recent baptism, outside our usual timing of the main Sunday Eucharist. I know that I had been in a church in the last decade as had the priest, the parents of the little one being done and his 2 year old brother. I only know that because the priest told me that he'd dunked the 2 year old himself. I'm very doubtful if more than 2 or 3 others of the 75 or so people there had been inside a church in that period, let alone to a service. Perhaps we'll soon have civil celebrants for baptisms as well as weddings and funerals.
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Yes, I vergered at a recent baptism, outside our usual timing of the main Sunday Eucharist. I know that I had been in a church in the last decade as had the priest, the parents of the little one being done and his 2 year old brother. I only know that because the priest told me that he'd dunked the 2 year old himself. I'm very doubtful if more than 2 or 3 others of the 75 or so people there had been inside a church in that period, let alone to a service. Perhaps we'll soon have civil celebrants for baptisms as well as weddings and funerals.
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Yes, I vergered at a recent baptism, outside our usual timing of the main Sunday Eucharist. I know that I had been in a church in the last decade as had the priest, the parents of the little one being done and his 2 year old brother. I only know that because the priest told me that he'd dunked the 2 year old himself. I'm very doubtful if more than 2 or 3 others of the 75 or so people there had been inside a church in that period, let alone to a service. Perhaps we'll soon have civil celebrants for baptisms as well as weddings and funerals.
There is such a thing GeeD. Atheist friends of mine had a ceremony for their twins, a sort of celebratory kind of deal and there was some sort of celebrant there. As they lived in Melbourne I didn't think it practical to travel down for it so I don't have any more info other than civil baby naming/thanksgiving celebrants do exist.
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Gee D
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Evangeline, Not sure whether to thank you for that advice or not!
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Most civil celebrants over here offer naming ceremonies.
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Good to hear again from you Rexory, even if that is not totally welcome news. In my example, I was surprised that even the grandparents seemed unaccustomed to church.
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I'm sure there are celebrants who would perform canine or feline weddings, if asked, too!
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I'm sure there are celebrants who would perform canine or feline weddings, if asked, too!
Such as:
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I'm sure there are celebrants who would perform canine or feline weddings, if asked, too!
Such as:
I am quite sure that animals in heat are not monogamous, for the most part. Or is the neighbourhood tomcat considered polygamous? And does that make it ok? (I've read the link and am completely gobsmacked.)
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I admit to organising my share of animal funerals* as a child, and the girl next door married off her dolls regularly, but I found the whole idea of an animal wedding totally repugnant. I am surprised at the strength of my reaction.
I can understand the funerals to some extent as part of someone's grieving process, but that's about the human's need, but a wedding, even seen at the most basic level, requires the freely given commitment of two people.
* the last animal I buried was Patchy, my elderly, grumpy cat. Georgie-Porgy came and watched. On the other hand my Dad told me that when the cat I had sent him to look after when I couldn't, died he engaged the services of a professional to dig the grave - my brother Kim, who was then working at the local cemetery.
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Disclaimer: I've never owned a pet, so I'm not really qualified in these matters.
I can almost understand people's need for some kind of funeral service for their pets (although I imagine it would only involve the family, a little marker of some sort and a patch of the back garden) but weddings?
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As Loth said, there doesn't seem to be any mention of the fees: I suspect the whole thing is yet another ruse to part the gullible from their hard-earned cash.
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Banner Lady
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Have just spent the morning with eldest grand daughter making various pet paraphernalia for her toy dogs and cats. (Carry bags, collars, leashes, bedding etc). I can only hope she will one day put in as much effort for the real thing.,
I have never been able to understand the need for us to treat pets like they were humans; as if they have human emotions; and needed human trappings in order to live well.
When we lavish upon our pets more care than we do upon human refugees, the world is definitely screwy.
Just sayin'.
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Not good news. Pets should be decently buried (or left with the vet for cremation) but none of this. Sounds very Eastern Suburbs or Mosman to me - a way of being showy just to be showy.
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I had a lovely surprise this morning. I opened the door and there was eldest son, supposedly still in Shanghai.
He had half a dozen medical and legal appointments relating to an accident and several operations some years ago. He managed to tie them all up this week, along with a dental appointment. Flew in late Monday evening, flies out again late Friday evening. Sleeps flat both ways.
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Sleeps flat both ways.
The only way to go long-distance and not feel as if you've gone 12 rounds with he heavy weight champion of the world (or in my case, only 1 - same result!)
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He has had two major back operations in the last few years and sitting up kills the back. Still sees physio weekly, pain management clinic weekly and assorted other specialists each month.
I was so surprised to see him back here yesterday, but he had legal matters to add into the mix.
As you said, flat bed seats are the only way for him. He can fly to Shanghai direct but has discovered a break at Kuala Lumpur puts him in the right time zone, gives him time for a shower to wake up. He arrives in China ready for work and return business class costs just under $4000. Less this time as he bought ticket in China. He has unlimited entry business visa so does not need to fuss about that.
Flights to London several times last year were also broken to allow him time to move around.
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I manage to get jet-lag in the 5½ hours it takes to fly from St. John's to London; as the flight usually leaves at about midnight Newfoundland time, you lose "overnight" and arrive at Heathrow at silly o'clock in the morning.
I'm usually asleep in the taxi almost before we're out of the airport precincts, and when we get to D's mum's, I might last until mid-afternoon before I have to go and flake out.
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Some friends came to stay about a decade ago when we were in rented house and halfway through afternoon one was saying:
I'm doing really well, I haven't felt jet-lagged at all!
and ten minutes later suddenly said:
I think I have to go and lie down now.
I freely admit that I do the 11 hours from Colombo [our nearest major hub] to London, or back, on drugs - there is an OTC travel sickness thing available both here and in UK that just makes me drowsy enough but not too much, it's fabulous. No food, just water and a walk up and down the aisles every few hours and I generally feel almost fine.
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I can sympathise with that - I'll be thinking I'm doing fine and then quite suddenly realise that I'm absolutely not. ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
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I had my flu vax today. My GP is very keen that all his patients receive it and even chases up people to make sure they do. Last year he only had two patients refuse to be vaccinated and they both came down with flu. He said that none of his patients last year who were vaccinated succumbed to flu. Here's hoping his actions work for me this year!
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My GP insists we have the shots every year - not that I object. The irony is that he hates injections and won't have it himself ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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... The irony is that he hates injections and won't have it himself
I used to work with a doctor whose job included Occupational Health and with it the task of making sure that her colleagues got the jabs they needed. She said they were terrible patients, and in some cases the solution would be to sneak up behind them with a loaded syringe ... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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B3 had an interesting day in medical admin yesterday. A visiting officer dropped dead in the meeting room. Despite being surrounded by trained and trainee medical personnel, there was no happy ending. Father of 8 and only 49.
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Oh, how dreadful.
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That's awful, BL - his family must be distraught.
Because of my work (well, my boss's work to be exact - she's a geneticist), whenever I hear of an apparently healthy person dropping dead like that, my first thought is that it may have been a genetic heart condition called ARVC, whose first symptom is often sudden cardiac death.
Prayers ascending for the gentleman's soul, and for his family.
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Made worse because he was on secondment from another country, so much paperwork ensued. Proud to say B3 showed her worth in the situation and was personally congratulated by the powers that be for her compassion and command. I hope that does her job prospects some good, as she has only just begun to settle back in to full time work and is still looking for the right niche.
It must be a horrible situation for anyone to lose a family member overseas - so much red tape on top of the sudden grief. And all the staff need care too, after a tragedy like that. B3 could at least debrief to us, and has many other things in her life on which to focus, for which I am grateful. Sigh.
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