[Sundaycommunity] How am I?

[Philomena Logel]

Patricia,
My prayers are with you at this time.i spent 4 and 1/2 days at Trillium
hospital following my cardiac surgery, so I hear you about the the days
being long, bedridden to boot. I pray for you to have a speedy return home.
There us no better tonic than that. Until that happens, I will continue to
hold you in my prayers.
Blessings to you for all that you do and have done in the Sundsy community.
Philomena

On Sat., Feb. 18, 2023, 3:39 p.m. Patricia Smiley via Sundaycommunity, <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I think I have been asked this question by some of you who join our zoom
> gatherings a few minutes early..  Unfortunately, the past few weeks there
> is something in my computer where the microphone isn't working properly.  O
> have spent a good deal of time trying to figure this out (this starts even
> before I am muted) but can't find an answer.
>
> So, as I am really bored I am going to give a quick written reply to all
> of you.  I am still in the hospital, St. Peter's in Hamilton to be
> specific.  This is a chronic care hospital and I will be here until the
> wound on the bottom of my left foot is sufficiently healed that I can stand
> on  it.  I had my 3 biggest toes and the ball of that foot amputated in
> early October after another gangrenous infection set in.  Did you now there
> is more than one type of gangrene?  I didn't.  The infection that caused
> the right below knee amputation in 2019 was caused by a gangrenous sore on
> my right big toe.  And, by the time the amputation was done, it had spread
> all along the bottom of the whole foot. So, this partial foot amputation
> managed to get rid of the infection.
>
> I expect to be here for another 2-3 weeks.  I keep myself busy with all
> kinds of things but i am getting tired of hospital life.  I am glad I have
> my laptop  here.  Because of problems with my eyes,k I have bought a small
> tablet to be used for reading.  i can't see the printing on anything but a
> large print book and I confess that while  I prefer a real book, I can
> enlarge the font on the tablet while reading and it is much easier.  This
> is not a problem that can be resolved with glasses, even prescription
> glasses.  The glasses you all see me wearing while on Zoom are reading
> glasses so that I can see the small stuff on the screen and I've been
> wearing reading glasses for about 20 years.
>
> I will be happy to be home, eating my own food, getting a good night's
> sleep in my own comfortable bed . . . I will get a partial prosthetic for
> this oot on an outpatient basis.  There is an excellent rehab unit with
> prosthetic department next to Hamilton General.
>
> Like many others in the community, I am deeply upset about what happened
> to Lee Piepgrass recently.  I consider her one of my closes friends and
> this accident happened just after I had spoken to her on the phone one
> Monday.  She provided a great deal of real physical help through my move to
> Hamilton in 2020 (both packing up and moving in) and has visited me here
> several times.  And many years ago,, she and her husband Don (Moncrieff)
> would drive me and my 2 kids to the CIC on Sunday mornings.  Lee in
> particular would open her house to whoever came on many occasions which
> many of us who have been around for a few decades remember well.  She was
> also very helpful to me in understanding my son's autistic spectrum
> disorder (once called Asperger's Syndrome) and often how to cope with it.
> She was also very supportive to me in my work as an anti-poverty advocate
> which certainly has continued to gratify my ego.
>
> So, all we can do is pray for the best recovery possible.
>
> So, this has become longer than I expected.  I don't have a missal or a
> Bible to read from - I will let you know when I feel comfortable doing that
> and possibly planning a liturgy again.
>
> Much peace to you all,
>
> Pat Smiley
> (and do give me a call - i'm almost always available)
>
>
>
> *Patricia Smiley*
>
> *email:  smileypatricia76 at gmail.com <smileypatricia76 at gmail.com>*
>
> *mobile:  647-517-1599*
>
>
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