and for today's update

So, how’s this for an interesting day?

Last night I hear a friend’s husband is to have a triple heart bypass today. So I offer to stay with her in the hospital whilst this is happening, should she need me. She accepts, but as I know she has had a bad time recently with depression, I wondered if she would actually phone me a the time when she needed me, so I went to the hospital at about 9h00. I phoned her, I sms (texted) her and eventually thought she was either in the hospital in a place where she had turned off her phone, or her daughters had taken her shopping to take her mind off of things. Her husband was in surgery from before I got there and transferred to ICU at about 14h00. I still had not heard from her.

I had met his surgeon, who was annoyed, as she could not get hold of my friend, and I said I could not either, and was waiting for her. I expected her to walk in at anytime, so I stayed on. And cross-stitched (Teresa Wentzler Jeanne Love’s Angel, now I remember I hate wings..).

I phoned her employer to ask her did she know of either the daughters’ phone number as she was not at the hospital, and not available. She phoned me back to say the eldest daughter said my friend was at home (!!). (You have no idea what I was thinking at this moment – the kids –all three at work and the hubby in ICU and mom at home)!!

The eldest daughter phones the hospital and tells them more or less what is going on, and they will visit tonight! It works out that my friend for the third time in three months has tried to commit suicide – on the day her hubby has a triple heart bypass!! She is in that hospital over there, and he is here!

I give up! How can we get my friend to see that this is not the answer and that her family needs her? The poor man has none of his family by his side, and he was really in a bad way. I have only met him once; he will not remember me! So I left and came home feeling totally sad for him.

hello it's me!

I have been around but it is easier to F/B than update here on my phone - I am so in love with that phone, I can do budgets and all kinds of things as it has excel as well as all other clever stuff. The photos are not great, but you win some you lose some.

Hope your new year is going swimmingly, I feel on the cusp of something exciting - just a gut feel!

Tim has two teeth - cute! His blood counts are up and he is looking very positive presently

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas everyone from a warm and sunny South Africa.

I do not feel even the littlest bit jealous of your snow - you can keep it!

We are having a quiet day with a bbq for 2!

I want steak - that is yet to be discussed.

hugs and all

xxxxxx

Tim quilts

Tim has a tooth!! Yay!

TQ 1 and 2

TQ4

TQ5 - sorry cannot turn it, this has butterflies on the pink squares.

You can tell which are camera photos and phone photos, sadly.

Anyway I am on no 5 now!

Tim Quilt 4

Yup, another one done - hell I am fast, it actually took one day in total, and now I have another available for raffle!

This one has a lot of left over squares from TQ2 and 3. So it looks similar.

Coralie says Tim is doing so well at the moment, he was excited when she got home on Wednesday and was gooing and gurgling to me on the phone. Too cute.

Tim quilt no 3 - update

I have brought TQ3 to work as Carina at work - thank you Carina - has said she will take it to her pool club so people will buy raffle tickets. So far she has already sold half the tickets, and she hasn't left work yet. She has asked people at work to buy raffle tickets and the managers have gone crazy!

People are so kind!

I am feeling all warm and fuzzy and grateful!

Tim quilt no 3

Poor yellow baby. Note where the Dr's keep shaving off his hair!
Timothy's blood counts are up - pretty high, his Paed is happy, his oncologist is 'ecstatic'.

This photo taken 22 Nov 2009.