Happy Valentine’s Day to all those that can get over the commercialisation of the event. I got caught up on the hype today and brought Jill a dozen red roses. It is fantastic to see her smile and that isn’t that often these days. In our renovation of our wardrobes I came across a wedding photo of Jill which had been in her parents lounge. A description of it would have been a fantastic photo of my bride some 44 years ago in a plain white frame with the name of the photographer across the bottom plus all the dust that had accumulated over the past 20 years. I decided to have it reframed and to put it in the entrance with the other wedding photos. A bit late for Christmas, our wedding anniversary so the next event that was appropriate was Valentines Day. It is above the fish tank in our entrance – pride of place. Jill hasn’t seen it yet – I hope she likes it as much as the roses.
The last couple of weeks have passed fairly quickly. I have all the renovations, painter, cabinetmaker and builder all organised for the 10 days Jill’s in Hospital. That had a little hiccup as we received a letter to say the operation was now at the Wangaratta base hospital and on the 9th of March. We are attending a pre operation appointment with the doctors, nurses etc on Monday. Jill is apprehensive about it all. I am not sure how she will take it but I am sure she is going to try her hardest to walk. Exercising over the past few weeks has decreased except for the peddle machine and weights. Jill had blood tests on Thursday and this was an event. It took about 3 hours, visits to two different labs. Must admit it was my fault. I went to the easiest lab to park at and get into and after waiting for about an hour only to be told that we needed to go to Gribbles Lab as they had a contract with the Hospital . They had the usual trouble finding a vein to extract blood and it was almost 3 hours later we arrived home.
Finally we are setting Mum to rest with Dad. The plaque is back and we are having a small interment service at the grave and we can add Mum and Dads ashes together under Dad’s yellow rose. This is to happen on Thursday.
Last week we had Jill’s Aunty Jean for a dinner and they made and decorated some cup cakes.
Chris and Nicole have also finished their Balinese Hut with the thatch going on this week – looks fantastic Chris.
It’s time to get Jill up and going – more leg exercise which we hope will help after the operation.
See you on the net in a couple of weeks