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EPISODE 1052 SIXTEEN DAYS IN TRILIUM HOSPITAL, APRIL5 TO 20, 2024, WHAT WAS DISCOVERED?

EPISODE  1052   SIXTEEN DAYS IN TRILIUM HOSPITAL, APRIL5 TO 20, 2024, WHAT WAS DISCOVERED?


alan skeoch
May 5, 2024


MRI — MAGNETIC  RESONANCE IMAGING 

“IF YOU GET SCARED PRESS THIS RUBBER BALL AND WE WILL GET YOU OUT”
“I WILL JUST CLOSE MY EYES.




“Why did he fall?’”
“Why did he not recover from surgery in a normal manner?”
“What was wrong with him?”


I would like to thank the staff at Trillium Hospital, Mississauga, for their
time and effort spent trying to discover why I fell and could not get up in
early  April

Doctor Grant and Doctor Paige were in charge of my case and authorized
a host of tests to determine why I fell and lost control of my recovery from
knee surgery on d/ecember 12, 2023.  

WHAT WAS DONE?

1) Four doctors tried to determine why I fell.  Two used hammers to gently
see if there was   a physical problem.   They found nothing.
2) An MRI imaging machine was used twice.   One of the occasions lasted for 35 minutes
Nothing  was found.  I kept my eyes closed but remain mystified how powerful
magnets and mirrors can provide doctors with images of the internal body
of human being
3) A host of tiny wires were attached To my brain to determine if I had
heart trouble.  ECG – Electro Cardio Graph.  Nothing irregular was found.
4) Sixteen days of observation most of which were spent flat on my back 
in the geriatric ward where there were cases far more serious than mine.
Nothing was found.
5) Dr. Grant discussed the case in detail with my wife Majorie.
6) Dr. Paige authorized home care and released me from Trillium hospital
as an outpatient  A professional therapist was assigned to  supervise my recovery 7) Marjorie and our son Andrew rearranged our house — beds moved, railing installed,
five pull bars installed in shower and external doorway ,   House was was made safe.
Sending a man to bathe me seemed ‘over the top’ however.
7) Marjorie would take care of the rest.  No easy task,  Marjorie thought the problem
was a yeast infection which caused severe swelling in legs and groin.

alan

WORST PART OF HOSPITAL

Wearing adult diapers that were changed regularly by no  nonsense nurses.
Most embarrassing.

END RESULT

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME.”
“Then why did you fall so often?”
“That will remain a mystery”
“Your task now is to begin therapy all over again.”

There are a lot of people who fall and  have no one to help them recover.
I am a lucky man.

THANKS

Tg nurses from Tibet and Figi and a ll places in between.   Additional thanks
to recreational therapists Natalie snd Pakizah who took me out in the
sunshine and awarded me a tiny chocolate bar when I won a game of
inpatient Bingol





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EPISODE 1050 FALLING (A[RIL 3, 2024) FELL FIVE TIMES ONE WEEK

EPISODE  1033    i’M ON MY WAY..PART RWO  : FALLING


alan skeoch
APRIL 24, 2024


FALLING (April 3k 2024)

Such a simple thing.   Falling into bed on an evening.
Not simple for me.  I missed the bed and hit the floor  Do not know
why my knees buckled.   One  knee was brand new.  The other knee
was battle worn I must admit but had served me well for 85 years
with no complaint.  
suddenly m y legs quit….refused to work,

“Get up Alan…please get up.  Can’t lift your 217 pounds.”
[217 became 201 in next 17 days)
 “Cannot lift myself…flat face to floor best I can do.”
“Call 911 now!”
“ Did…they want to know more about situationl”
“Tell them dire.  slide that plastic pillow under me…I will slide to the basement stairs
and let my legs hangover…maybe get purchase on something ….swimming
cross the floor with hands….made it ..now to get legs on stairs….failed ….slid down stairs
to cellar and hauled myself back up stairs  step at a time.   Took ages.   Medics arrived
and assessed situation then a burly man hoisted me 
erect.
“Embarassing!”
“Forget it….we do this every day

MY PLAN BEFORE 911 HELP ARRIVED

Stupid plan of mine… I figured I could get on my feet
by sliding to cellar stairs.  Needless to say 
the plan did not work and I ENDED UP IN THE CELLAR.





Great!  Then I fell again and needed rescue.  An hour later with 
different rescuers…..same good hands.

THEN CAME THE WORST FALL…COULD HAVE BEEN TERMINAL

  I fell into our small shower cubicle,  Both Legs telescoped.
Impossible result as my flesh snd bones were contorted into
the shower stall.  My operated leg folded worst….like a jackknife blade
folds into the jackknife jacket.  I was trapped.  Dire situation. 
Majorie wedged the walker into the stall.  No help.  Stay calm
until Andrew could drive here from his home.  

“Can you help?”
“Don’t move.”
“Fat chance of that…feel like a sardine in a fish can.”

Andrew  scooped me out.  The stitches in my new knee did
not pop out.   All seemed well.  Except for one question.

“Why did I ciollapse?  I was doing well in recovery.  Was able
to walk to Mary Fix park and back without a difficulty  Then suddenly my
strength was gone.   I was on the floor….helpless.  A sardine.

TRILLIUM HOSPITAL EMERGENCY


So we drove to Trillium … emergency   “We will have to keep him…”

Seems the hospital  was full but able to find a space in the the basemen hall
…in front of a row o lockers with my feet blocking entrance to some kind
of storage room.  My toes ticked every person seeking entry;

I spent three days and nights on a gurney tightly wedged.,,in adult
diapers…on my back.  A notice told nurses to keep me immobile
until a better place could be found.l

I was a lost soul.  No one ventured to speculate on what had gone wrong.
People passed me in the narrow hall.  Seemed forgotten  Like the ancient mariner
‘who stoperth one in three’.  I asked passers by to phone my wife  Most ignored 
me then one person, Jane, phoned Marjorie and things began to change  .

Three days in a hospital locker wall…in diapers for both #1 snd #2…alone..weak…
mysteriously ill…on a gurney.  Playing ‘footsie’ with staff seeking entrance ti’a mystery room.  

END PART TWO

p.s.  two of my helpers in happier times on floor C3 of Trillium
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“II’M ON MY WAY!” (he’s n his way, on his way….on his way!) “Alan skeoch is coming home!”

EPSODE 1032: “II’M ON MY WAY!” (he’s n his way, on his way….on his way!) “Alan skeoch is coming home!” — where has he been?
alan skeoch April 24, 2024
I fell. First time was no big del. Then followed a bnch of falls a week later Serious falls. I could not get back on my feet. Needed rescue from emergency Measures burly people…then fell in shower wedged …like a side canned beef. Andrew did that rescue.
Thought my skin would burst as i ;ay there . The stitched held. Then he picked me up… his father… and whisked me to the Trilium hospital….
What follows is a sequence of events between December 12, 2024 and April 24, 2024….described as best I can.
Readers may wonder where I have been.
several episodes.
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What stitches?

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EPISODE 1932 DEAD CAT

episode  1032     THE Dead CAT

alan skeoch
MARCH 29/,2032

THIS IS NOT A PRETTY PICTURE.  




Some readers thought our cat killed by the coyotes,  Not so.  She is
outside (a risk leashed to a blacksmith showing tool.

Above is the gruesome picture of the coyote kill.   Not sure all readers will approve of
such reality journalism.

Do not blame all coyotes.  Cars kill more  wit animals…one rabbit killed by a car car as I pushed my
walker by Mary ‘Fix Park five minutes ago for example.

Would the cat killing coyotes attack me as I pushed my walker into the wilderness
park where they live,   Defenceless elderly man pushing a walker.  I cannot run…barely
able tp push the walker.   

And once down on the ground I couldn’t get up.  A coyote meal? Many meals!

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Fwd: Episode 1030 Andrew will you help find our cat” “you are standing on its tail!”



Begin forwarded message:


From: ALAN SKEOCH <alan.skeoch@rogers.com>
Subject: Episode 1030 Andrew will you help find our cat” “you are standing on its’ tail!”
Date: March 24, 2024 at 10:36:43 PM EDT
To: john Wardle <jwardle@rogers.com>, Marjorie Skeoch <marjorieskeoch@gmail.com>


Episode  1030 

Andrew will you help find our cat” “You are standing on its’ tail!”

Alan Skeoch
MarcH 24, 2024

We keep Chelsea Bun, our cat, on a long  leash to avoid  a  NASTY SHORTENED LIFE!


Amazing that wild creatures survive and thrive among the hundred of thousands
human beings in th GTA.    But they do  as some of us find out the hard way,
A better heading for this episode might be “Nature red in tooth and claw” as a neighbour of Andrew discovered.

“Andrew will you help me find our cat?”
“You are standing on its’ tail.”
“Beg your pardon?”
“”You are standing on your cats inedible tail tail…coyotes got your cat  last night. Sorry]to say that.”

A pair of coyotes had been out hunting.  Perhaps needed food
for milk for pups just born… food for momma coyote.  Or for 
themselves. Andrew had spotted the coyotes and made sure Norman their 
fat shortl legged pug nosed dog .  Andrew was also woried
that a bald eagle, recent ly arrived ub the ske=y above Port Credit, might tear a strip off of Norman. Nice fat little dog,

The cat was not so lucky.  How did Andrew know the killers were coyotes? Night
time howling.,,
Barely visible movements of ‘greyness in the semi darkness of dawn and dusk.
Best evdence was the cat tail and paws snipped of with finesse and some long
length of the cat’s fur.  Dead cats keep tails attached if death is natural or a car accident

There was a time when I was young that the night time prowlers were Tom cats and raccoons both of which are now in short supply due to coyote oredation.

alan


Dawn in Port Credit about where  coyotes roam and cats must be carfeful


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story










three related stories

story Ome:  Collapse
Story Two    Rescue
Story Three  Resurrection

episode 1025   story one COLLAPSE

Our greenhouse semi collapsed in 2023 …. heavy wet snow -a large ump of ice was held by these steel tubes…. too dangerous
..no rescue possible until th ice meltrd,

TASK; IT TOOK 30 YEARS TO PURCHASE THESE THINGS.  SUGGEST 5 ITEMS
THAT MIGHT BE USED IN A MOVIE SET.  

NEXT EPISODE WE WILL TRY TO SEPERATE GOOD FROM GARBAGE.  YOU WILL HAVE HAVE A HEAD START



LIFE IS NOT EASY  
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JOHN CALDER SAW MILL AND THRESHING MACH INE AT WORK…MASSEYHARRIS BEAMS

EPISODE   1,020  JOHN AND ELEANOR CALDER — BUILT A SAWMILL FROM PARTS 


alan skeoch
dec 8, 2023


Note: This story is about the Calder family aw mill.   Your task is to separate threshing 
from sawing….the Calders did both. 

John and Eleanor Calder were a remarkable couple, Hard to know where to start their story
because they could do things thst would intimidate people like me and possibly you,

‘What  is all that scrap iron beside the barn John?”
“I am going to build a sawmill, Alan…got all the pieces here.”

John and Eleanor were a perfect match…fitted hand and glove.
They decided to build their own house after a fire converted nearly all their
possessions into ash.  I remember John’s burnt hands after he reached through a burning 
window to rescue some silverware and pottery.

AFTER THE FIRE ‘MAKNG DO’ WITH WHAT REMAINED

“We will just have to make do with what remains’”
“What remains?”
“Lots.”
“Like the dairy herd was untouched and the barn and the sheep…and our family…no
deaths in the fire.
so we began to build our dream house.
 I rescued this sawmill from scrap iron dealers.   We have trees
…lots of them….and we have stones,,,lots of them.  Enough to build a two storey field stone house,  I have a plan,”
P{lan””
“The stones are free but lumber costs money.   I need my own saw mill to cut costs”
‘
JOHN AND ELEANOR CALDER WITH HELP OF CHILDREN  JAMES, DOUGLAS AND 


ANNE BUILT A STONE HOUSE THAT BECAME A FEATURE STORY IN NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES  i,e  HARROWSMITH



The brand new stone house about to receive lumber from
 the saw Mill


ENTER  OUR FMILY


      when we  discovered   the Calder saw mill.  We had been collecting white pine beams from                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        the demolition of the Massey Harris factory in west Toronto.  The pictures below show how the beams became nice lumber.

Today the saw mill has been abandoned for two decades 

OUR LUMBER AWAITS A NEED

CIBC

alan

P.S>   Eleanor was born to Frank Townsend and Elizabeth Skeoch, dad’s sister




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EPISODE 1,019 HOW TO BECOME A COVER GIRL

EPISODE  1,019    HOW TO BECOME A COVER GIRL


alan skeoch
feb 23, 2024

PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM  1982

PARKDALE  COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE  



“Mr  Skeoch would like some students to stick around the
school tomorrow afternoon around 3.30.  A book 
publisher has hired a photographer to take a picture 
of our students on the cover of a book he has written.  Here is 
your chance to be famous.”

The reaction was amusing.
 

 Parkdale students milled around the photographer who seemed to know
what he wanted.  Namely students not teachers.  Took about 40 minute then he was gone 
I never saw the results until the publication was done.

What a surprise!   A cover that wrapped around the whole book.   Most interesting
was the cover girl…the dominant feature.   students were dressed casually….blue jeans and sweaters,   One girl came to school in her best dress, an eye catcher with polka dots on a white base…new shoes, black leotards,  She was stunning.

And it was no surprise her image dominated the book cover.  I do not remember
her name unfortunately  Perhaps an ex student if PCI will recognize her.

Instructions
1) Do not look at the camera
2) Would the young lady in polka dots dots seem to be reading the book.
3) Would the rest of you be in conversation 
(It was no accident that the final cover was representative of the Canadian 
population)

Every time I see this cover I am reminded of those halcyon days when 
I taught high school,  There is no job like it.  To see adolescents become adults.

Citizen X (as I call her) seemed to be just like all the other students
until she saw her chance to be something else…a cover girl.
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EPISODE 118 NONE OF MY BUSINESS — “THE SHOPPING CART AND HOMELESS MAN.”

EPISODE 118     NONE OF MY BUSINESS — “THE SHOPPING CART AND

HOMELESS MAN.”

alan skeoch
Feb. 19, 2024


Most people walked by the man and his loaded ‘borrowed’ 
shopping  Cart loaded with who knows what.  EVERY person that
passed by in 20 minuted ignored him. You too?I only saw him load
one item…a soda or beer can which he crushed flat and pitch in 
the black milk crate.   Beer can ?  Worth 10 cents. What can ten cents buy?
Soda can, worth nothing.  

IMAGINE THIS MAN IS YOU…your cart.
Answer the questions.

Be specific  if you can

What ’is in the cart?
where do you sleep tonight? (temp -7 and sinking)
What do you eat?   Where?
Do you have friends?
Where do you wash?
Where do you relieve yourself?
How did you become homeless”?
Is there any danger in Being homeless?
What do you do about  a tooth ache?

NONE OF MY BUSINESS~ RIGHT?