Update at 09:25pm: We just had a black out, it lasted 50minutes it was pretty scary. I don't mind a black out in the summer but do mind when it happens in the winter when today it is -36Fahrenheit degrees out. When we loose our power, we loose our heat. We don't have a fireplace nor have a generator. There is never a dull moment in our lives! LOL! Ok now here goes my entry that I wrote before the power out.
No knitting today but what a bunch of emotions we had.
We saw the ambulance stop in front of our house. Uh oh! It was for our neighbours across the street. I wonder what's going on. Finally they bring the ambulance "bed" into the house. UH OH!!! Wonder who it is for, either the husband who has heart problems and is a chain smoker or the wife that is overweight, has advanced alzheimer's.
After what seemed like hours but really only a short time in reality. We see that the wife is all bondled in the bed. ACK! What happened, why did they need an ambulance, we're praying that she will be ok. She is on a waiting list to be placed in a home for people who lost their independance. She's near the end.... her life left is probably calculated in months. This woman has been my mom's best friend since they met 25 years ago. She had a daughter my age and Valerie is now Zoe's godmother. This woman was my english teacher in high school(in Quebec french schools, we get english as a 2nd language classes throughout elementary and high school). She was a tough teacher too, she knew I'm bilingual (at least by french Canadian standards!) and she never gave me the perfect score in all my school work. It would piss me off 'cause I knew I had everything right! I'd always get 99,9%. As she would always say, there is always place for improvement. I got my revange when I did my end of year exams for the board of education. That when I finally got my first perfect score of the year. ;)
Well finally she will be ok. Seems she fell off her bed at 3am and her dh waited until the morning to call the ambulance. He wasn't sure she was hurt as she has fallen from the bed before. This lady weighs like 200+lb. she used to weight almost 100lb lighter when she was teaching. It is such a shock to see her today. In the morning she complained of pain and went to the hospital, she was released by supper time. So that was a relief but then again we are hoping that this last incident will help her get into a home quickly. Her dh isn't qualified to help her out as much as she needs. So that's that.
Tomorrow Carl has the morning off (which was hard for him to get) to go to the health clinic with the kids and I. Well...... life being the way it is. I am busy tomorrow morning, I have an "asthma class" I get a 60 to 90minutes course on how to deal with my kids and their asthma. Thing is we were going to have them checked and see how strong their asthma really is!? So either we get up at 7am (LOL!) and run to the health clinic, have them checked and then I either go or cancel the "asthma class" or I go learn all about asthma and then learn they don't have it. UGH! Such bad timing.
I only learned that Carl got the morning off last night. Then today I had already things planned and couldn't go to the ped clinic in the:00 AM. UGH! Carl needs to be back by noon at work So he wouldn't even have time to take the class with me. I hate having information stuffed into my head, as soon as I get out of the room, I'll forget more than half of it! ARGH!
So off to go knit, I've missed it today! ;)
Knit 1, Purl 2.
Posted by Jo at January 22, 2003 07:56 PM