On Friday evening, Isabel's "girls" and their families gathered to celebrate with her and to launch the Advent & Christmas seasons, and Mum's birthday season! We toasted her with "Barnsley champagne" (Canada Dry ginger ale) as each one of the 10 of us named an accomplishment of Mum/Grannie B of the last year. These included:
* transferring from bed to chair by standing with a little help from a nurse or two
* being able to talk out loud again; and then even more so, with a speaking valve
* successful surgery for contractured feet
* spending time off the ventilator
* learning to walk again
* learning to drive a power chair around Wascana Rehab and Wascana Park (all the way to the Legislature). Yea! Rufus 11!
* typing letters including her Christmas letter
* pedalling a bike
* dishing out advice to her daughters and grandkids and still "calling the shots" at a faster pace than last year!
Cheers to you, Mum! We are so proud of your dogged determination!
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