FREE? there is always a price tag

From the time I left Durban to visit my daughter Kerry in middleburg (Rivers of Joy blogspot} My husband Andy fell ill. He had a severe pain in his left side, very severe. We re state patients where the first requirement is PATIENCE. Before proceeding, I want to make it quite clear that despite everything, we are very grateful that there is such a facility as not everyone has medical aid cover and the cost of all things medical could cause even the healthiest person to have tension, anxiety or even heart attacks. Medical aid conspiracy or medical aid scheme?

Andy went to casualty to see a doctor. After going through a screening process, that was to make sure he was REALLY sick, or simply had nothing better to do. She would decide whether he could go on or go home. He was to go on. He collected his file and joined a queue to have his name entered into a book. He was number 247, a long wait was ahead of him. By this time he had one foot in the grave, or so it felt A doctor eventually examined him, gave him tablets and sent him home. As the days went by there was not improvement, so back to casualty he went. The whole process was repeated. This time the tablets were different, however, there was not improvement. Third time around they admitted him to a 48 hour ward and a Doctor was assigned to him. He suffered exhaustion by this time due to lack of sleep (I shared in that bit) but worse still I was becoming less sympathetic and felt very guilty about it. Was I an awful person? He was discharged eventually with bottles of meds, but with the severe pain too.

It seemed impossible, but he had to go back again. This time he saw a surgeon. He did a special sort of xray and .... lo and behold! there it was! a tear in his gall bladder. He is scheduled for a GI which entails swallowing a camera and having the tear burned together from the inside. That took place during the whole month of March. There is only one maching working so he can only have his procedure done at the end of April and has painkillers to take until then. Two months of pain and suffering and me trying very hard to put myself in his place by reminding myself that I may have the sleepless nights but at least I was pain free. I can only thank the Lord for my patience because I could not have done it on my own. It has been a long and wearisome experience and still we wait, but it was all for free .......

Technology- WHAT HAVE MY CHILDREN DONE TO ME I knew I should have stuck to cell phones. But with 4 blogging children, I was always the one in the dark when it came to keeping up with what filled their days. SO whilst visiting Kerry, my second daughter, she took me off to an internet cafe and set it all up for me. Very easy she says, The easy part was her doing all the setting up while I watched, still in the dark. However, I walked out of there feeling ten feet tall, I had entered the world of technology, even if I still onlyunderstool cell phones. I then went on to spend a couple of days with my very clever computer whizz mother. I watched. Then my mom suggests that I "get the feel of the mouse" Well, how hard car that be? The mouse and I clashed immediately, and between us we lost the arrow. With parental help we managed to find the arrow and return it to its rightful place. there were glitches though, it went right when Iintended it to go left and viz a viz. then zooming,moving the picture was something else again. It seemed Iwould need super powers of co-ordination for this task. However, I shall persevere s that I can join the ranks of the bloggers keeping in touch with mybeloved family and broadening myhorizons by meeting others. God bless my family for the encouragement and my ever patient husband Andy who spent four hours at least helping me to find all my blog and e-mail sites. When the children were small I knew more than they did, when they became teens they knew EVERYTHING when they were 20 ish they were amazed at how much I had learned and how smart I had become, but now, alas, it would seem that the tables have turned once again!

Holiday with my precious family

We are spread far and wide, my family and I. I have just spent 1 week with Kerry, my 2nd daughter. Her husband Johannes spends much time travelling as his job demands, spending weeks at a time in Namibia. Kerry works a full day & juggles children. She amazes me. Watching her, I can hardly believe I once did the same thing!
I was introduced to my youngest grandchild Shanni, now 5 months old. and how the others have grown! Tessni now 10 years, was 4 when I last saw her for any length of time, & JP was only 2 & is now 8. My daughter I have missed so, & it has been wonderful to discover who they all are now.
My mother, who has always been there, unconditionally, always loving and forgiving. I praise God for her good health and that she is very alive to live a full and very productive life. She exhausts me! Then ther is Chris, my Step father, who has been like a grandfather to my children. They all see each other fairly often, maintaining that fragile bond that can so often be broken when children grow up and lead their own lives.
In two days time I travel home to Durban and Pray we will not wait so long to see one another again, life is fragile and might choices must be made. My earnest pray is that I make those might choices, so I have no regrets as time goes by.

My first Blog

Hello My Daughters. I am visiting Kerry for a week and she has helped me to create my first Blogspot. Please keep checking to see what I have to say for the day. I love you all