Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley, "By the Pricking...  2." on 08-12-05
16:32

 JB>  it wasn't for reclining seats where I can sit back a
 JB>  couple of notches, and a Palates exercise ball, (but
 JB>  flat like a pancake) acting as an air cushion, I can't
 AH>           Hey, whatever works....  :-)

Mostly, it worked across Sask. So no complaints except from mom. /-:


 JB>  four stops, and it's back home for a few days of R+R.

 AH>           This may seem like a silly question... but do you
 AH> have to do three or four stops at once?  I'm just wondering
 AH> whether a series of shorter trips might accomplish the same
 AH> goals, with less exhaustion afterwards....  :-)

Whatever! 

i went to a friends for some R+R, and found myself on the end of a
shovel/rake/wiremen's pliers...

Two nights there, and things start stinking. You get too familiar with
 the 'wedded bliss' and I need to reconfirm my bachelor status.

 JB>  I was in hospital, and once the doctor found out I
 JB>  actually made it to the restaurant, (Who can really
 JB>  survive on hospital food?) I was discharged the next
 JB>  day.


 AH>           And now you know how to get yourself kicked out
 AH> of hospital if that's what you'd like to do!  You showed
 
 AMEN TO THAT!

 AH> the doctor you had the energy & the gumption to seek out an
 AH> alternative source of nourishment.  If you had to get
 AH> dressed in your own clothes to go the restaurant, you
 AH> probably looked like a million bucks compared to the way
 AH> you looked in the standard hospital gowns as well....  :-))

I guarantee I've looked better than when I drag my carcass to the
hospital canteen, but hell, I'd keep walking if I knew there was a car
waiting for me. 



 AH>           Yes... we found it very hard at first when Nora came home from
 AH> rehab. She was discharged before the paint was dry in the
 AH> bathroom, and I had a lot of back pain until I'd
 AH> experimented with various ways to do certain tasks within a
 AH> limited space.  Like you, though, we'd been getting
 AH> increasingly impatient with hospital food etc.  Our first
 AH> "off campus" expedition... barely one month after Nora's
 AH> stroke... involved pushing a manual chair uphill to a
 AH> grocery store near the rehab facility.  The head nurse
 AH> thought we were crazy.  But, to make a long story short, we
 AH> wore out our welcome much sooner than anybody expected....
 AH> ;-)

There's the door. Where's my hat? Don' care if it hits me on the way
out. 

 AH>  Onward & awkward... JB>  And now it's my motto too! 
 AH>  Thankyou.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....

Payment in kind.


 JB>  Rick Mercer quote, "Safety first, time permitting."

 AH>           Uh-huh.  Dallas & I take reasonable precautions,
 AH> but we don't put our lives (or Nora's) on hold

How can you. I mentioned I was in Van. during 9-11? The survivalist
 went home to fill his bathtub, and I needed to buy some
 blue-jeans. Who won the wise-guy award, I can't tell you, but I'll
 bet had more humour through it than Mr. Scaredy-Pants.


 AH> indefinitely.  It was scary taking her to that picnic
 AH> ... we knew we'd be in a jam if she fell & we couldn't get
 AH> her up.  However, we were at the beach in White Rock.
 AH> White Rock is not the end of the earth.  It's quite hilly,
 AH> but it has a hospital & assorted other emergency
 AH> services....  :-)

And, there would at least be a kindly person to help you out of a jam.

The world is alright, but we have to make it that way.


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