Update on three fronts

1. Mum is in the hospital with double pneumonia. Making slow progress. The local 'village' of friends is rallying round superbly and providing visits and nourishment of both the food and the spirit variety. Thank you!

2. I passed that kidney stone of the last post. Phew. Don't need to experience that kind of pain again. No diagnosis yet from the lab of the make-up of the stone.

3. This morning (Thursday), Val dislocated her right hip (replacement surgery took place in 2001). She's landed in hospital where the surgeon will do a minor procedure (that's what he called it) to replace the cup that holds the ball (I think I have the anatomy right). Poor Val. She is miserable about this; not so much because it was painful but because it is yet another thing gone wrong with her body that will require her to restrict her activities.

The dislocation happened, as these things often do, in a mundane way: She was getting her jacket out of the hall closet to go to the morning cancer-patient yoga class at Yoga North, she twisted her foot under the hall carpet and somehow twisted the damn joint out of the socket.

The paramedics and the hospital emergency staff were excellent, and I am so grateful for that.

Please send positive vibes this way!
Love,
Amanda