We continue to be grateful for the many acts of kindness that have come Isabel's way during the last fourteen months.
Visits and phone calls and letters.
Autumn flowers and bouquets of ripened grain.
Humorous stories and news clippings from various newspapers.
And just recently a creative gift from one of Isabel's friends at Abernethy.
Mum has maintained her Abernethy involvement by reading news reports, asking questions, giving advice to committees-!!, and inquiring about the health and whereabouts of everyone she knows.
She has missed seeing all the building and renovation projects at home. Last week, one of her friends filmed a 10-minute video of all the external renovations and building projects in Aber. He then travelled to Regina with his laptop to show Isabel what's been happening at home in the last 14 months. Mum asked him to play the video again as she studied new colours of paint and new garages, and saw construction add-ons and inquired after the owners. Twenty-two projects in all!
Mum spelled out CHEERS to all the fine work in sprucing up the village.
With gratitude for the many creative ways that kindness continues to come into our lives,
Isabel and Her Girls
Monday, September 29, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Marking Accomplishments
It's been a good couple of weeks!
Along with visits from Cousin Joy and almost daily physiotherapy and occupational therapy, Isabel's grand-daughter Megan dropped in from Luther College at the University of Regina just five minutes away from Wascana. Meg and her Grannie discussed their experiences of leaving home for University. For Meg that was just three weeks ago; for Isabel that was 60 years ago.
Last Friday, grand-kids Mary and Josh decorated their Grannie's room with fall leaves and streamers ~ the same streamers that we had hung in Isabel's hospital room last September. How far we have come since then!
And on Friday, Amanda came to visit her Grand-Aunt Isabel and to show her yet another First Place Medal for being the fastest female runner at the recent Queen City Marathon. We remember writing about Amanda last September as we compared her win to the marathon that had become part of Isabel's life.
Mum ~ What amazing accomplishments you have made since last September! As your hand flew across the letterboard asking Cousin Joy about friends and family in Scotland and England, Joy remarked over and over again about your physical and communication progress since she last saw you in January 2008.
A medal for you, Mum! And gratitude to Grannie's B's grand-kids who sweep into her room full of energy and stories. And thanks also, to Isabel's friends from Abernethy who visited last week and this week bringing tales of the village, summer holidays, harvest, beautiful September weather (at last!) and the corn and apple crops........
Along with visits from Cousin Joy and almost daily physiotherapy and occupational therapy, Isabel's grand-daughter Megan dropped in from Luther College at the University of Regina just five minutes away from Wascana. Meg and her Grannie discussed their experiences of leaving home for University. For Meg that was just three weeks ago; for Isabel that was 60 years ago.
Last Friday, grand-kids Mary and Josh decorated their Grannie's room with fall leaves and streamers ~ the same streamers that we had hung in Isabel's hospital room last September. How far we have come since then!
And on Friday, Amanda came to visit her Grand-Aunt Isabel and to show her yet another First Place Medal for being the fastest female runner at the recent Queen City Marathon. We remember writing about Amanda last September as we compared her win to the marathon that had become part of Isabel's life.
Mum ~ What amazing accomplishments you have made since last September! As your hand flew across the letterboard asking Cousin Joy about friends and family in Scotland and England, Joy remarked over and over again about your physical and communication progress since she last saw you in January 2008.
A medal for you, Mum! And gratitude to Grannie's B's grand-kids who sweep into her room full of energy and stories. And thanks also, to Isabel's friends from Abernethy who visited last week and this week bringing tales of the village, summer holidays, harvest, beautiful September weather (at last!) and the corn and apple crops........
Friday, September 12, 2008
"Will Ye No Come Back Again?"
During Isabel's many visits to Scotland during the past 36 years, she frequently heard friends and relatives sing the refrain: "Will ye no' come back again?" This familiar farewell inviting a guest to return has been turned around to Isabel's great delight!
Cousin Joy from the West Highlands of Scotland has returned for a harvest visit. Joy is Isabel's second cousin, and she spent a month with Mum in January during the Robbie Burns' celebration and Mum's transition to Wascana. As a retired Occupational Therapist, Joy's helpful ideas supported Mum through the winter. When Joy left to return home, Isabel told her COME AGAIN.
Joy arrived last Monday to help with the harvest at the Froehlich-Robertson Farm at Bradwell (Isabel's birth-home east of Saskatoon). However, Joy's Air Canada landing in Regina enabled her to spend two full days visiting Isabel so they could both catch up on news. Joy went to therapy with Mum, and they visited on the sunny terrace amid all the still-blooming summer flowers. Hot weather --- a far cry from the 40 below zero temperatures of last January -- eventually brought them back into Isabel's room.
With gratitude for travelling cousins who do "come back again" and bring stories of Scottish friends and relatives....
Cousin Joy from the West Highlands of Scotland has returned for a harvest visit. Joy is Isabel's second cousin, and she spent a month with Mum in January during the Robbie Burns' celebration and Mum's transition to Wascana. As a retired Occupational Therapist, Joy's helpful ideas supported Mum through the winter. When Joy left to return home, Isabel told her COME AGAIN.
Joy arrived last Monday to help with the harvest at the Froehlich-Robertson Farm at Bradwell (Isabel's birth-home east of Saskatoon). However, Joy's Air Canada landing in Regina enabled her to spend two full days visiting Isabel so they could both catch up on news. Joy went to therapy with Mum, and they visited on the sunny terrace amid all the still-blooming summer flowers. Hot weather --- a far cry from the 40 below zero temperatures of last January -- eventually brought them back into Isabel's room.
With gratitude for travelling cousins who do "come back again" and bring stories of Scottish friends and relatives....
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