First day of the new year, we received the dreadful news that our dear old friend in Edmonton, Joan Dixon, discovered the first week in December that she had terminal ovarian cancer. What a shock for her and their family and friends! EVERY year we had received a Christmas poem from Joan and of course because we were in Texas, we did not realize there was no poem this year. She asked her daughter to wait until after the new year to advise their friends, as she did not want to spoil everyone's Christmas! She had been totally symptom-free until the end of November. The cancer had already spread to other parts of her body and she was in hospital from the first week of December on. It grew like wildfire. We had word from her family that she passed away last Friday morning, January 15th. We grieve with Charlie and Heather and Alex in the loss of a very fine lady who spent her life thinking about the comfort of other people, right up to the end.
Then on January 2nd, we learned that our former neighbours at Kootenay Lake also had bad news. After spending a wonderful Christmas with all of their family at home for the first time in years, Bryan and Jill Daybell advised that on their way back to Calgary, their daughter, Rita (who graduated with our Christy) and her two young adult daughters, were in a terrible accident in Kootenay Park. Thank the Lord that no one was killed, but they were in very bad shape. They have updated us to advise that the one daughter was released from hospital the same week, the second daughter has many broken bones and has finally been released but it will take a long while before she is back to normal, and their own daughter, Rita, had a head injury which she is still recovering from - but she is on the mend.
My Auntie Helen Werschler, who is also my Godmother, passed away at 92 on January 7th, but that was a blessing, as she had Alzheimers quite bad. She had broken her hip recently and had surgery in Regina. She apparently was in a lot of pain after the surgery and of course did not realize what was happening, so none of our family was sad to see her out of her misery. She was a wonderful auntie.
So, I just thought I would share this with anyone who happens to read our blog.
If you ARE following the blog, I would sure appreciate knowing. Just give me confirmation at redwingbraun@hotmail.com.
I am still writing articles to send to the P.A. Shopper every week, but as of the new year, the new Office Secretary is doing the website updates for MDS, so that lightens my load of writing.
John and I are doing fine. Haven't had any illness yet. Sometimes John gets down because of the "culture shock", but thankfully he gets over it and back to work. Today, Jan. 20th, he encountered a flock (or whatever they call a bunch of them) of cockroaches in a back wall which he is shoring up. He got out his spray bottle of diluted Pine Sol which does kill ants. It didn't seem to kill the cockroaches but it sure slowed them down so he could stomp them. And big ones they were!!
He is not crazy about this type of renovation work. He much prefers building a house from scratch. However, we are here, and we can see many blessings to the homeowner that we ARE HERE. Mr. John holds his hand out for a cookie every morning when I arrived, so I'd better be having one for him!!! And it is great to have Miss Jane back after she was in hospital for about 10 days. I really missed her!
Will write more in a few days. Good night.
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