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Click your ruby red heels together……
There’s no place like home………There’s NO place like home…………There’s no place like HOME!!!……….On Friday we had such fun surprising Mom by coming home yet ANOTHER day early!! The ceremony on Friday will be posted as a video. You just HAVE to listen to it……..and be SURE to listen to what Stefi has to say at […]
Headed for the rainbow!
Mom has been working so hard, and you have all been gracing us with your prayers for so many weeks. She can eat a lot of things and feeds herself. She laughs. She can walk, v e r y carefully. She can read and understand what she’s reading…..So, send her e-mails and cards. Our address […]
Mom is going for little outings
I’m driving Mom home today for lunch with Jeanne and John and Jean and Genevive, today, and I DO hope that it goes well. The girls and I are cooking a Poor Man’s Meal, which is stir-fried potatoes, onions, brown rice, hot dogs, hamburger and served with warm bread. I took her to Kentucky Fried […]
Mom’s Thank you
Today, Mom told me that she wanted to begin sending thank you cards to everyone. So, I’ll get her some cards and she can start. There’s SO many of you to thank! I suggested that she write out a group thank you and that we could scan it and put it on the blog. I’ll […]
update June 5th-busy days
Hi Everyone! So sorry that I haven’t updated in a few days. Mom had a couple of difficult days where her blood pressure dropped and it was difficult to keep her with us. No matter what I did, I couldn’t raise her blood pressure. She would talk from time to time, with a lot of […]
Monday June 1, 2009
Mom has written this date and reminded herself of it many times today. She wrote a list of things to include in her daily prayers and referred to them several times during the day. She wrote in her notebook……This is the 1st day of June, 2009 and I am in the Montrose Hospital after having […]
Our Private Concert
Endre Balogh and James Smith James Smith and Endre Balogh graced us with a breath-taking performance at the Acute Rehab Unit at the Montrose Hospital, this afternoon. Mom had been very sorry that she couldn’t be at the concert, last night. And the call from James asking if we’d like them to come and perform […]
Sunday
Last night, I personally had a greatly needed break when I went to listen to James Smith and Endre Balogh in the wonderful violin/classical guitar concert. It was magical and for a moment I didn’t think about the stress of the day and the possibilities for Mom and our family. I smiled spontaneously and moved […]
May 29th-Our last couple of days
Yesterday, Javier and I rehearsed at the rehab center for the masters classes that we plan to have with James Smith, next week. I haven’t had very much time to practice and I’m afraid that it showed. Hopefully, by next Wednesday we’ll be able to play the Carruli’s Duet in D well enough to benefit […]
Tuesday afternoon, last week……This is a long day, huh?
I asked everyone……Dr. Hehman, first, what I should do to stimulate her. His response was less than hopeful and I prayed………….I cried…………I shuttered………to think of Mom surviving for THIS……..We’ve had a lot of conversations about quality of life and how life is to linger or not and how she wants to live…………..I looked at Mom […]