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Skriven 2014-03-26 21:37:18 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11361 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: a toast!
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> They're planning on discharging him tomorrow. Somewhat better but
 RH> never will be even what he was a few months ago.

 NB> The days of our years...  they are soon cut off and we fly away...

So true.


 RH> And I'm glad my brother is up there taking care of the situation.
The way things have been around here the past year or so, we appreciate
not having to be there "on top of things" all the time.

 NB> Someone has to do it, but God knows what he has planned for each of
 NB> us, not always what we thought... and you were given other things to
 NB> deal with for now...

Yes, and waiting to know why we were given the path we're on now.

 NB>  RH>> It's a smallish hospital so better food than huge hospitals
 NB> would have  RH>> but he's always been a basic meat and potatoes with
 NB> one side vegetable  RH>> type eater and that's not always on the menu.
 NB>  NB>> Well, there is that.  ;)  Hospitals tend to have more of that on
 NB> the  NB>> menu than I would eat at home, though... and often have some
 NB> option  NB>> that at least is close...  :)

 RH> Yes, but he likes things so bland that I doubt even they can make it
 RH> to his satisfaction. I think he's gotten pickier in his eating as he's
 RH> gotten older too, and that doesn't help.

 NB> We all tend to get set in our ways, and even minor deviations can be
 NB> unsettling...  :)

Yes, and at 92, he is Very (!) firmly set in his ways.

 NB>  NB>> That's for sure.  My one friend didn't worry so much about the
 NB>  NB>> temperature, but what bothered her was that their schedule for
 NB>  NB>> bringing the meals was so different from her usual home
 NB> schedule...  NB>> she tended to start the day later, and her last meal
 NB> was usually
 NB>  NB>> something like 10pm or later... She'd have to save food for
 NB> later,  NB>> and keep reminding them not to take it away yet...  ;)

 RH> And by then, the food was probably either cold or warm, depending on
 RH> how it started out. Good chance for some nasty bacteria to get to it
 RH> then too, and that's not good in the hospital environment.

 NB> At 90+, she wasn't worried too much about that, I think...  :)

If she was comfortable with that.....................; I'd not be so
sure about it.

 NB>  NB>> school, and their reunions tend not to be class reunions, but
 NB> just  NB>> whole school reunions, and scheduled for times that I can't
 NB> get away...

 RH> Unfortunate but that's the way things go sometimes. I think my high
 RH> school class has stopped most reunions (still a ways to go to our
 RH> 50th); the school itself had a multi year reunion a few years ago. I
 RH> wasn't able to get to that either. There's only a few folks I'd like to
 RH> catch up with anyway.

 NB> Since I'd only been at the school I actually graduated from for the
 NB> one year, I hadn't thought I'd be particularly interested in
 NB> reunions... so I skipped our 10th reunion...  By the 25th, I was
 NB> getting a little
 NB> curious about the few people I did remember, and wondered if maybe
 NB> they'd be there to catch up with... so I went to that one... and made
 NB> connection with some people I didn't even know from before...  a
 NB> couple of the friends I'd wanted to see were there, a lot weren't...
 NB> But I
 NB> went to the next one (sparsely attended, but with a few more people
 NB> I'd been wondering about, and enjoyed myself), and then to the
 NB> informal ones that an enterprising local classmate decided to pull
 NB> together to just
 NB> keep people in touch between times...  :)  Now there are more folks to
 NB> keep up with at the reunions... :)  And I've been on the official
 NB> planning committees for the last one (45th) and the coming one (50th),
 NB> and the unofficial one for the 40th, formed from the people that were
 NB> coming to the informal get togethers..  :)  You just never know... ;)

Steve's class seems to have a lot of informal reunions, but a lot of
them have stayed in the area. We've not made any of them but one
classmate keeps ones like us aware of what's going on. When I was a
freshman at Houghton, Steve was visiting me once. We went into a lounge
area--and he saw one of his high school classmates who was also a
student there (I'd not known him). I also met a Houghton student who was
the year ahead of Steve in high school.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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