[Sundaycommunity] I'm back home!!!

[Mr. Gillis]

So glad Pat you are home and you have family around you to assist you.
Hope you manage to do a little of that gardening you are talking about.

Be well!

Greg


On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 4:04 PM Tina Neves via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Fantastic, Patricia!!!
> I pray that you continue to recover at home and ...enjoy home...what a
> blessing!
> Healing blessings
> Tina
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:42 PM John MacMillan via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
>> Wonderful! Thanks for letting us know.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 11:41 AM Patricia Smiley via Sundaycommunity <
>> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, all,
>>>
>>> Yes, it's true.  I was discharged yesterday from St. Joe's Hamilton.
>>> Rachel and Leo (my daughter and her partner) picked me up at lunchtime.  We
>>> stopped on the way to pick up some great falafel sandwiches and I really
>>> enjoyed the ride home.  Let's face it, I still don't know Hamilton.  We sat
>>> outside in my backyard to eat our lunch rogether.  I did have a hard time
>>> getting inside the house.  Once in, I was fine.  I am not planning to go
>>> very far for a while and Leo will put in a small ramp so that I can manage
>>> one very steep stair to the side door.
>>>
>>> In addition to being profoundly hungry (for truly nourishing food) I am
>>> also quite profoundly exhausted.  I had 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep and
>>> after waking  up to deal with the results of a very full bladder, I went
>>> back to sleep thinking how comfortable my lovely bed is.  I got up this
>>> morning, again with a full bladder and feeling very hungry.  As I am
>>> expecting a couple of visitors at lunchtime today I am not going back to
>>> bed until they have left.
>>>
>>> It was a horribly humid stinky day yesterday.  At first we just opened
>>> up some windows, but after a while the air conditioning was really
>>> needed.  At one point, I had the ceiling fans going with the air
>>> conditioner.  (Set to a reasonable 24.)  I am very far from being settled
>>> into the house, I know.  A washer and dryer is arriving tomorrow and Leo
>>> will be here to install it.  Also, I ordered a table from (sorry) Amazon.
>>> IKEA is back but this was the best price for a small wooden table.
>>>
>>> Once upon a time, this house had a lovely garden, both at the front and
>>> back.  Right at the moment, it needs a lot of tending.  This is the kind of
>>> challenge I would love to tackle, if I could.  Unfortunately, even without
>>> the setback of the fracture, I wouldn't be able to do a lot of it myself -
>>> especially the weeding.  But if not this summer, then next summer, I could
>>> do some of the trimming that these bushes need.  The previous owners left
>>> not one but two good pato tables and I bought two chairs from Canadian Tire
>>> that are appropriate for my current needs.  (I'm sure that thrift shops and
>>> garage sales, when I can get to them, will provide more seating for
>>> others.  Rocking chairs are a no-no for amputees but I have kept my
>>> beautiful bentwood rocker partly because it is just so beautiful and does
>>> provide a comfortable seat for others.)  The garden does have almost all
>>> the perennnials I love - just missing lilac bushes.  In the spring the
>>> scent of lilac bushes is glorious.
>>>
>>> (I was making my way from Queen's Park to College and Yonge a few years,
>>> using the side streets to get away from the noise of the busy streets.  It
>>> was a lovely spring day but right downtown in concrete wilderness, I was
>>> struck by a lovely sweet smell.  I realized I was walking by a narrow strip
>>> of freshly planted, still small lilac bushes.  And yes I did stop to smell
>>> them.)
>>>
>>> So, I am looking forward to seeing everybody on my screen the Sunday
>>> after next.  I will have had the chance by then to catch up on my sleep and
>>> my laptop will be back in its place on my computer table in the living
>>> room.  Until then, my phone number remains the same and if I don't answer,
>>> it's because I'm asleep.
>>>
>>> Much love and peace to all, Pat
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Patricia Smiley*
>>>
>>> *email:  smileypatricia76 at gmail.com <smileypatricia76 at gmail.com>*
>>>
>>> *mobile:  647-517-1599*
>>>
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