A very short blog post!
Saturday, January 12th – Sunday, January 13th 2013
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Category Archives: Journal
January 2013 – Hospital in two photos
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- Feeling queasy? Look away if it’s not too late. The ‘oily amber’ substance from Annie’s lung
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- Essential Medical Technology
Just in case you missed it, here’s our journal entry for the last few days.
Wednesday, January 9th – Friday, January 11th, 2013
Increasingly, each time I prepare to see Annie after some time away – be it a night or a minute – I never know in what condition I will find her. Each unit of time shares the same unpredictable rhythm, the same complex DNA. In that respect the last year is a projection of the last hour and the last hour a compression of the last year. Sometimes, life is so painfully and wonderfully, upsetting and uplifting.
Tuesday, January 8th 2013
This morning was as tense as last night was long – so long.
Monday, January 7th 2012
Just wrote an update and then lost it!
Saturday, January 5th – Sunday, January 6th, 2012
As the days, weeks, months – and even new years – pass, I become increasingly aware of the fact that nearly half of our married life has been fraught with cancer. That’s nearly six years. In fact, two years prior to her diagnosis, Annie’s Mom’s journey with cancer began (and continues today), so in that sense cancer has been around for the most part of our married life.
December 2012 – January 2013 in photos
Just a few snapshots of the last couple of weeks following Annie’s first departure from hospital – includes carol singing in the city centre, making and boxing cookies for neighbours on Christmas eve; Christmas day with my parents; post-Christmas games and fellowship; sewing, writing and constructing a frame for the poem Annie wrote for her Mom as a Christmas gift – all from the comfort of her hospice room; a late Christmas with Mom Ruth, Tim, Joy and Tabbi; oh…and just a dash of the dashing Milo.
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- Carol singing (in the rain) in the city
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- Carol singing (in the rain) in the city
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- Baking and boxing cookies for our neighbours
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- Christmas day at the Muliettes
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- Post-Christmas Day Games
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- Post-Christmas Day Games
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- Constructing and painting the frame for Mom Ruth’s Christmas gift
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- The finished product!
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- The poet and her poem
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- Milo ponders the New Year
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- Attractive and functional
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- Spot the difference
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- Tabbi’s Construction – Now Hiring
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- Mom and her gift
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- Lunch!
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- Christmas list 2013 – 1. A camera tripod
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Friday, January 4th 2012
At roughly 8pm I arrived at a packed A&E waiting room and told that Annie was docked in a corridor somewhere and that I needed to wait until she was allocated a spare bay in the A&E ward before I could see her. Roughly half an hour later I was called in by a nurse. Continue reading
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
It’s 7:44pm and I have to be brief. I write this for your information and for prayer.
Sunday, December 30th 2012 – Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
O Christ, in Thee my soul hath found,
And found in Thee alone,
The peace, the joy I sought so long,
The bliss till now unknown.
Broken Chariots 