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| I`m just back from a few days away at a conference. It is so good to know that Lesley`s Mum has had her op and although things dipped a bit they`ve improved. Thinking of and praying for Lesley, her Mum and all the family as Lesley hopes to get to use her train tickets. Love and blessings, Sheila.
Sheila
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PS Love to read your posts, Tedi! Always make me  Blessings,
Sheila
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(and Desmond - who is looking forward to the trip You tell that bear to keep his feet to himself ... tripping old ladies, huh? Whatever next?
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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So, how is the hip?
I'm not allowed to go bungee jumping nor parachute jumping ... there goes the weekend, huh?
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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Dear all,
I'm safely back from Mum's - although failed points and broken down freight trains made the four hour journey nearly seven hours in each direction (may God bless Network Rail).
The hip improved throughout my week long stay. However patience has never been one of mum's great virtues (as she herself will tell you) and at 86 it's a bit late to start learning it now!
Having said that, by the time I left, the clips were out of the wound, which was nicely healed and she was mostly off her crutches and on a walking stick. She was experiencing more pain in the one that hadn't been done - and we both have the whole experience to look forward to again in January....
Her main problem is a pressure sore on her bum that she came home from hospital with.
I wish I could have stayed for another few days - but I have to take annual leave from work and there simply not enough of it, especially as I have to repeat it all again before April.
However, she is doing the stairs on her own now, and the purchase of a walking stick to keep upstairs solved a very real issue for her.
I was absolutely exhausted when I got back and had to go straight back to work the next day. Yesterday, I spent asleep catching up.
It was nice to be home 'though. It's a long time since I was last there.
"Real life" is now asserting itself with a vengeance - all those jobs I said I'd leave until after I got back from Mum's.....
God bless
With love as ever,
Lesley xx (and Desmond, who got to see Belvoir Castle from the top of Beacon Heights on a sunny day)
Just for today, dear Lord, let me realise that there is nothing that we cannot handle together - and may I pray the same prayer tomorrow.....
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| Welcome home, Lesley, or should I say `back`! News sounds good. Here`s hoping and praying that your Mum goes on doing well. Sounds as if she has plenty of spirit. And she`s passed it on to you! Blessings,
Sheila
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| Dear all, Mum is continuing to do well. She says she has no pain now in her "new" hip - but still a bit stiff in the mornings. There'll be no stopping her once she has the other one done after Christmas... I can't wait to have her back to "normal" - well, for Mum anyway. It's all happened so fast. It's only last year she was still working down at the Children's Society shop and doing the Church Flowers. She doesn't "do" ill! I phone every evening - but it irks me to be so far away. My period of respite and "settling in" to the new place comes to an end this Sunday - I preach "officially" on Sunday morning for the first time. The sermon's written - but I feel pretty rusty to be honest. As I've seen my new working agreement (sort of job description) I can officially say that the grass will not be growing under my feet...and I'd better not apply for that job in Chester after all. Please do be praying for me, if you would be so kind. I'm off to St. Deiniol's on Monday for five days for the Urban Theological Collective (can't write it without grinning - sounds like the Borg - "resistance is futile: you will be assimilated"), which is much more fun than it sounds. I'm giving a paper (brag!). Actually, in spite of having to stand up and talk in front of all these really clever men (usually I'm the only woman there), I really look forward to it, because there is nothing better than a week's worth of good company and the Library to play in. I can work on the thesis and generally enjoy myself. Well worth taking annual leave for Michael is having a hard time at the moment. I was up till 1.00am with him this morning (and then awake for another couple of hours worrying, as you do). I think he is feeling the pressure of work, Uni and growing out of his Youth Club. The fact "his" Rachel is away in Germany seeing family is not helping either. There's a new manager at work to boot - so there are lots of changes there for him to cope with - with his autism that's really hard for him. Then to cap it all, one young man came into the garage where he works last night drunk and threatened him - and I think it was the last straw for Michael, so I got it all when he came in..... I'm just grateful he feel able to talk to me. However, I'm not feeling so brilliant today as a result and today is chemo day  Must go and crawl into bed. On the up side, Matthew will have cooked tea tonght - and he really is getting to be very good God bless, With love as ever, Lesley xx (and Desmond - who is packing for St. Deiniol's as we speak)
Just for today, dear Lord, let me realise that there is nothing that we cannot handle together - and may I pray the same prayer tomorrow.....
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