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hermit…

13 Friday Dec 2024

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hard to believe yesterday marked five years since my last day of work before retirement…

I remember what a special day it was… I did all the things I wanted to do, the way I wanted;-)…

it was always fun to gather the group for a photo, kind of like herding cats, lol…

since then I’ve travelled a bit, enjoyed being a hermit through Covid and beyond, spent hours in the garden, read a ton of books, and enjoyed every minute… I truly am blessed;-)…

it’s a wonderful life…

surgery…

31 Monday Jul 2017

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today in my Facebook feed the following memory came up…

I had been in the hospital for a few days with pancreatitis when I wrote the above post, and ended up there for six weeks… during that time I also had my gallbladder removed… I was very sick and when we left the hospital I was afraid, I’d been there so long I wasn’t sure how I would manage at home… I still had a drainage tube in my side and was barely able to eat…

a lot has happened in seven years… 

the tube came out just a few days before our younger daughter’s wedding and I finally started to have an appetite…

two years later my husband died suddenly in March and within a few weeks I was diagnosed with uterine cancer… I’d been waiting for hernia surgery and so there were lots of discussions with the various doctors as they figured out how they could do both surgeries at the same time…

in July of 2012 I had a combination surgery and spent ten weeks recovering…

my body does not handle drugs well and within 8 hours following the cancer surgery I stopped taking all drugs…

dealing with pain is easier than dealing with the side effects of drugs…

this afternoon I had my final appointment at CancerCare… after eleven visit… saw my surgeon, who I rarely see as they work on a rotation, and was discharged from the program…

life is pretty darn good even with all the changes;-)…

gentle…

05 Sunday Mar 2017

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it was right around this time five years ago that the police knocked on the door as I was meeting with my BS friends and advised that George had been in an accident and they would take me to the hospital…

today I spent a gentle day remembering good times…

looked through old photo albums, enjoyed a short walk in the gorgeous weather, was treated to breakfast by a friend and her adorable baby (and her husband, lol), sat and read by my beautiful flowers, shopped with my son-in-law and the younger grandkids, bought some very nice pyjamas, had burgers cooked on the barbecue and am watching some tv with the perfectly working remote!!!

spoke with one daughter by phone and texted with the other…

focussing on the happy times…

it was a good day…

five years…

30 Tuesday Sep 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, nature, Uncategorized

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it was overcast and cool this morning… the morning glories were struggling with the temperature… not sure how many more blooms there will be…

IMG_8570.JPGthe leaves are falling very quickly and there are less than half of the coloured Virginia creeper ones left along the garage…

IMG_8571.JPG today marked the fifth anniversary at my work…

we each have a box where other staff members can write and put notes of appreciation and thanks… my box used to be purple, but has faded to blue, lol…

so, to celebrate, I wrote a note to each person on staff thanking them for their contribution to these five years… and I brought in some nuts and a lovely chocolate haystack… we do love treats to eat…

we have been through a lot during this time… I have struggled with two serious illnesses/surgeries and my colleagues have been walking this new journey with me since George’s death… they really are amazingly supportive…

one of my colleagues had brought in some flowers from home yesterday, and this morning she shared them with me…

IMG_8572.JPGI have been blessed in all of the positions I have held… from a year at a law office, eight years at Transport Canada, contract work from home while our girls grew up, assisting my sister-in-law with her real estate business, a year at The Faculty of Theology at the U of W, ten years at a theological college, to these last five wonderful years…

IMG_8573.JPGhow many people have a workplace where yoga mats have showers:-)…

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