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jack_ryder) wrote2007-04-15 05:34 pm
jack_ryder) wrote2007-04-15 05:34 pm
Family Trouble
I found out last Friday that my step-father (in all but ceremony really) had a stroke. To make matters worse, my mother was in New Zealand attending a violin workshop, so John was all alone.
On the kitchen floor, unable to get up, for eight hours until he was found by his friend Tom, who lives down the road and was checking in with John just in case exactly this kind of thing happened.
I can't help feeling how awful it must have been for him to be lying there, unable to get up (he'd broken his femur), brain fused by lightning.
Fortunately he's in hospital and stable. I won't know much more until we hear from Mum later tonight.
I've had to cancel the next two weekends as we'll be down in Canberra. I may stay for a week after Anzac Day (got to stay at work until my boss gets back from her archery championship as we cover for each other.)
I'm not in the mood to do Nigel, but I'll have to do some catch up episodes just in case.
And just to make things more interesting my BPV came back in a rather spectacular fashion on Friday night after I heard the news.
Oh well, we've checked onmurasaki_1966 parents this weekend.
sigh, our parents are getting much, much older.
So if we're not exactly available for the next month or so, this is why. We are still going ahead with Anzac Day, though.
On the kitchen floor, unable to get up, for eight hours until he was found by his friend Tom, who lives down the road and was checking in with John just in case exactly this kind of thing happened.
I can't help feeling how awful it must have been for him to be lying there, unable to get up (he'd broken his femur), brain fused by lightning.
Fortunately he's in hospital and stable. I won't know much more until we hear from Mum later tonight.
I've had to cancel the next two weekends as we'll be down in Canberra. I may stay for a week after Anzac Day (got to stay at work until my boss gets back from her archery championship as we cover for each other.)
I'm not in the mood to do Nigel, but I'll have to do some catch up episodes just in case.
And just to make things more interesting my BPV came back in a rather spectacular fashion on Friday night after I heard the news.
Oh well, we've checked on
murasaki_1966 parents this weekend.sigh, our parents are getting much, much older.
So if we're not exactly available for the next month or so, this is why. We are still going ahead with Anzac Day, though.
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If there's anyone you want to see while you're here and you're uncomfortable about using your folks' place, use mine. I get to meet new people and use up my coffee, so it works for both of us.
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