<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">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.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i>Patricia Smiley<br></i></div><div><i>email: <a href="mailto:smileypatricia76@gmail.com" target="_blank">smileypatricia76@gmail.com</a><br></i></div><i>mobile: 647-517-1599<br></i></div><i> <br></i></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 4:24 PM Philomena Logel via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Patricia, <div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto">Blessings to you for all that you do and have done in the Sundsy community. </div><div dir="auto">Philomena </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat., Feb. 18, 2023, 3:39 p.m. Patricia Smiley via Sundaycommunity, <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">Hi, all,</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">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.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">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.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">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.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">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.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">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.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">So, all we can do is pray for the best recovery possible.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">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.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Much peace to you all,</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Pat Smiley</font></div><div><font size="4">(and do give me a call - i'm almost always available)</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i>Patricia Smiley<br></i></div><div><i>email: <a href="mailto:smileypatricia76@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">smileypatricia76@gmail.com</a><br></i></div><i>mobile: 647-517-1599<br></i></div><i> <br></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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