[Sundaycommunity] How am I?

Sun Feb 19 13:07:40 PST 2023

Hi Patricia,
I hope the days and weeks go by in a flash so you too can enjoy your own
home, your own food and your family close by. As to the food, we are so
lucky that we have been involved in re-settling Syrian and Eritrean
newcomers to our community, who, along with friends and family have brought
over wonderful, delicious meals and treats, more than what we can eat, so
we put the rest away in the freezer.
I wish Hamilton wasn't so lar away, i would do the same for you.
Until then,
Blessings and hugs to you
Philomena

On Sun., Feb. 19, 2023, 1:32 p.m. Patricia Smiley via Sundaycommunity, <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Thank you, Philomena.  I'm glad this surgery went well and you have been
> able lto do most of your recuperating at home with  your own good food and
> your own comfortable bed.
>
>
> *Patricia Smiley*
>
> *email:  smileypatricia76 at gmail.com <smileypatricia76 at gmail.com>*
>
> *mobile:  647-517-1599*
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 4:24 PM Philomena Logel via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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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