Praise & Thanksgiving
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This is the place to mark anything for which we're thankful, be it recovery from illness, finding something that was lost, or just the arrival of a new day.
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And a yelp of praise from me as my granddaughter N has been allotted her first choice of secondary school.
I'm grateful that we found a very cheap and very nice hotel, although we'll have to be up very early to get to the airport ...
Cattyish, doing my homework for Saturday's Doric Messiah.
Brava, Dormouse!
I'm grateful that my friend Marsha's (12-hour!) brain surgery went well yesterday; according to her husband, the surgeon said she was the best "aware" (awake during surgery) patient he'd ever had. He got most of the tumor, and she's already stronger on the affected side. Deo gratias!
<candle> and Bravo! for Marsha....
My brain tumour removal took about 5 hours, but I was completely zonked. In a way, I'd like to have been aware, but I'd probably have got bored or uncomfortable.....I did, however, watch a 15-minute video on YouTube of the...umm....interesting parts of a similar procedure.
IJ
Fortunately a branch of the Library was having its be kind to technopeasants day and a staff member sorted it, then had me repeat what she had done to check I had understood.
I think that woman should be a subject for Canonization
Huia
Given family history and personal conditions brain surgery isn't out of the question and I have heard it is something that looks dreadful but can be done with the patient pretty much with-it. I'm not sure I'd like to be on the table with a dozen sets of eyes looking down on me through respirators and, as you say, it would be very, very boring.
Huia - learning to be less of a tecnopeasant, one skill at a time,
* The language of bureaucracy
The interesting thing was that I had to change my habits of quickly looking up something on the internet when on route. My replacement mobile, which is exactly the same model, hasn't got internet due to a lowly prepayment subscription.
Now..., all this made me think about how dependent I may have become on constant access to the internet. Do I really need to look up everything immediately? I could actually find other ways of getting information (like firing up the laptop I often have with me), or perhaps even... talk to people?
Grateful for some insights there, a great blessing really. Mindboggling.
1. Money - I like eating
2. sheer bloody mindedness - I am not letting this take over my life
CK, I think you're doing splendidly, and agree that bloody-mindedness is key. I have read that the body works very hard when one is recovering from burns and scalds (all those repairs I suppose) so I'm not surprised you are knackered.
I'd tell you to take it easy, but I suspect you won't!
Just picked up on this - well done, Rossweisse! My brain tumour surgery took about 5 hours, which would have been boring, had I been awake, but they zapped me good and proper.
Re the other end of the Episcopal Person, I paid my final visit to the chiropodist today. Both toes, from which ingrowing nails have been removed, have healed up nicely!
IJ
(Yes, I know they were probably catching insects, but they are glorious.)
They are not native here, but some were probably blown across the Tasman some years ago.
They totally lifted my mood.