back froman all afternoon tour

well, the doctor born in New Zealand, Dr Moncrief<, says of some oof my major problems, not his.

Eyes
Shoulder
Feet

and sent us to the eye doctor.Now gotta hope the nurses organize an optician.

There are a lot of appointments to make in March for May.The Cabulance will   take me if I am sixk.
So head the list Moncrie and Johnson.One at Cherry Hill and one at Polyclinic.

well a blog is a diary

I really am still not totally clear about what my hopes, fears, expectations amount to.  But the nurse Adrienne--actually a therapist I  guess--has this succinctly.  I fell because of pneumonias (just a fall, nothing fatal) and in the rehab I had a stroke,    Boy, I remember that one.

The bruises and bangs from Fall 3 are healing to my eye.  Apparently rehabbing from stroke takes more twists and turns.

probably this has been hardest on Bill, God bless him.  He trundled me out for a walk to the nearby  Cathedral, and he has been at my side a great deal.

After the fall is over

This  is me, in the nursing home near the Cathedral called the Terraces of Skyline.  It's so quiet, it  is a bit daunting at  midnight;, but me;, I'm wide awake.   I was full of  soap opera drama when I  got
myself into the hospital;,.went totally self ;centered and quite gabby too. Strokes and  pneumonias, wow, just the stuff I wanted  to impress myself with!  Now I've got some sensible notes in a file of  copies of  reports \written as I was released, trained, scolded;  and I can look at the file in five years if you need  any accurate detail!  Really;, it's all pretty insignificant except for my view that these strange things ;are glamorous and exciting.

One: I seem to have been convinced that falling down and going boom could make ;me  termiinal. Two, I seem to have thought I had the worst damage in the world,  oh dear!

I probably was just seeking the right reason not to leave Seattle this fall.  Bill has admitted that our  present ticket plans for November fourth are getting tiresomely complicated when trying to judge his schedule.

Fourth, the awkward aftermath here for me is the blunt truth -- two separate issues.  How do you cook, sleep, and visit with people day to day when you've sold your car and lazed out so much?  ;And if you have been getting away with maximum self-indulgence and loafing as I have (definitely) , how far in outreach is appropriate?  :Will changing the weather help stir up a heathier attitude in me?

in Cherry Hill

well, the date is October tenth of 2014 guys and here i am  learning to type in Afib.  who knew!

i did have a   trivial  fall  july 23, leaving right rib sore.  that arm went srone dead for a  full week.


sept 29 same arm came out of the third stroke much the  worse!

Thanksgiving for McJohns

2012.  Joe and Kathleen had everybody over.  Such food -  such hor d'oeuvres.  Joe is fascinated I guess with Mexican cheese.   It melts so well ...

Ambroise Thomas of Metz

   I began wondering about Agnes Thomas, the bold mother who with her sons and daughters came in 1854 across France to Le Havre and across the ocean to the Mississippi River.  Is Thomas a Welsh name up there in Metz?

  What I found tonight poking around online is a musician born in 1811 in Metz name Ambroise Thomas.  He  could easily be one of us, from his picture and his life story.