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Skriven 2014-03-25 23:19:21 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11286 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: a toast!
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 23 Mar 14  21:08:18 <=-

 NB>> Hope they get the better of it soon...  I'm sure that if things were
 NB>> deteriorating, your brother would let you know sooner... so things
 NB>> probably are about the same, if not maybe getting a little better...

 RH> They're planning on discharging him tomorrow. Somewhat better but
 RH> never will be even what he was a few months ago.

The days of our years...  they are soon cut off and we fly away... 
 
 RH> And I'm glad my brother is up there taking care of the situation. The
 RH> way things have been around here the past year or so, we appreciate
 RH> not having to be there "on top of things" all the time.

Someone has to do it, but God knows what he has planned for each of us,
not always what we thought... and you were given other things to deal
with for now...

 RH>> It's a smallish hospital so better food than huge hospitals would have
 RH>> but he's always been a basic meat and potatoes with one side vegetable
 RH>> type eater and that's not always on the menu.
 NB>> Well, there is that.  ;)  Hospitals tend to have more of that on the
 NB>> menu than I would eat at home, though... and often have some option
 NB>> that at least is close...  :)

 RH> Yes, but he likes things so bland that I doubt even they can make it
 RH> to his satisfaction. I think he's gotten pickier in his eating as he's
 RH> gotten older too, and that doesn't help.

We all tend to get set in our ways, and even minor deviations can be
unsettling...  :)

 NB>> That's for sure.  My one friend didn't worry so much about the
 NB>> temperature, but what bothered her was that their schedule for
 NB>> bringing the meals was so different from her usual home schedule...
 NB>> she tended to start the day later, and her last meal was usually
 NB>> something like 10pm or later... She'd have to save food for later,
 NB>> and keep reminding them not to take it away yet...  ;)

 RH> And by then, the food was probably either cold or warm, depending on
 RH> how it started out. Good chance for some nasty bacteria to get to it
 RH> then too, and that's not good in the hospital environment.

At 90+, she wasn't worried too much about that, I think...  :)

 NB>> And, as it turned out, I ended up staying in the same area where I'd
 NB>> been to college, and also where I'd graduated from high school.. the
 NB>> school I lost track of was the one where I had thought I'd be
 NB>> graduating from... back in the Philly area... away from which I had
 NB>> moved... and since I hadn't graduated with my class there, they were
 NB>> less interested in keeping track of me.  That was a very small
 NB>> school, and their reunions tend not to be class reunions, but just
 NB>> whole school reunions, and scheduled for times that I can't get away...

 RH> Unfortunate but that's the way things go sometimes. I think my high
 RH> school class has stopped most reunions (still a ways to go to our
 RH> 50th); the school itself had a multi year reunion a few years ago. I
 RH> wasn't able to get to that either. There's only a few folks I'd like to
 RH> catch up with anyway.

Since I'd only been at the school I actually graduated from for the one
year, I hadn't thought I'd be particularly interested in reunions... so
I skipped our 10th reunion...  By the 25th, I was getting a little
curious about the few people I did remember, and wondered if maybe
they'd be there to catch up with... so I went to that one... and made
connection with some people I didn't even know from before...  a couple
of the friends I'd wanted to see were there, a lot weren't...  But I
went to the next one (sparsely attended, but with a few more people I'd
been wondering about, and enjoyed myself), and then to the informal ones
that an enterprising local classmate decided to pull together to just
keep people in touch between times...  :)  Now there are more folks to
keep up with at the reunions... :)  And I've been on the official
planning committees for the last one (45th) and the coming one (50th),
and the unofficial one for the 40th, formed from the people that were
coming to the informal get togethers..  :)  You just never know... ;)

ttyl       neb

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