Keeping in touch across the miles

I managed to escape back to Taiwan the day after Trish came out of hospital. If you are reading her diary you will understand why. It’s turning cold here in Taiwan too – seems everywhere I go is like that now (must be something to do with the seasons). As you can imagine, I am…

Where was I? Oh yes. You will be pleased to know that I now have a dictionary by my side, as even I recognised some of the spelling wasn’t right. I had the op Tues a.m. Turned out to be a burst appendix which was situated a little higher than normal, hence the confusing symptoms.…

I cannot beleive it!!! What do you say? I was carrying on merrily and suddenly WHAM! For those of you who do not know, I was taken ill with an appendicitis on Sun, 24th Nov. I thought at the time it was food poisoning and it was only when I was still feeling very ill…

This is Christina, this time. Bernadette requested an update, so I thought I would post one for everyone. Mom’s fine, she came home at 1:00pm today, English time. (They called me with the news.) She now has developped Shingles, apparently, so the doctor will be making a house call on Monday, I believe. She’s pretty…

It was strange to read about my mom’s illness in her weblog. I was glad to have such a tool, however, otherwise I might not have heard about it until after she’d had the operation! (I’m hard to reach on Monday-Tuesday). As it was, I didn’t hear about it until at least 12 hours after…

Dave again here with an update on Trish. She had her appendix taken out yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, about 12 noon. By late afternoon she was back in the ward, in reasonable shape and happy to have her hands on a morphine self adiministration device (happy being the operative word). Very tired and sore, but coming…

This is Dave making an update for Trish – who is in hospital. She is awaiting surgery at this point for a suspected appendicitis (I know – even the doctors find it hard to believe at her age). We went to a pot luck on Sunday, and thought this was food poisoning when it came…

Saw the Lord of the Rings exhibit on Sunday. It was fabulous… though it could have been better. If they’d put the exhibit on for a couple of months, to allow for more viewers, had guided tours and limited groups, it would have been better. Then they could have explained all the props, maybe described…

Sweden is now turning cold, and having been here since Monday all I have seen is light snow, grey skies and VERY early darkness (3:30 pm), though the snow is not sticking so it’s not even pretty at this point. And to think, last week I was in Taiwan and 25ºC weather, with a quick…

Okay, Okay, so I got it wrong! There are a lot of choices in the supermarket, I think it is because I cannot find what I am used to!!! Still raining!!! Today I went for a walk down a lovely country lane at the back of my house and what a mess someone has made…