Alan Skeoch

Month: May 2024

  • EPSODE 1054 CHELSEA BUN — OUR FEREL CAT—OM THE REFRIGERATOR

    EPSODE 1054     CHELSEA BUN — OUR FEREL CAT—OM THE REFRIGERATOR


    alan skeoch
    May 7, 2024


    Some people do not like cats.  My good friend Russ Vanstone for instance.  We, however like
    cats and kittens and so many other living things.  Marjorie and I even like most  humans with
    the exception of the worst President 9f the USAl…ever…

    This story is about Chelsea Bun,  our cat.  She is partly feral and finds places to wait 
    and watch for a mouse.   Her favourite toy is a ruibber alligator that she carries here
    and there in her mouth.

    She loves to kiss our dog Woody … and to steal his bed.  She also loves us and
    rubs against us …loves Marjorie’s lap.  Domesticated.

    Her ferel side surfaces sometimes when she tries a swipe with scimitar claws.
    Ferel.   I doubtt Russ could love her as we do.

    alan (photo by Marjorie.

    P.S. Thanks to Elizabeth from whose barn she came.  She liked the high
    barn beams.   Best we could provide was our refrigerator.


  • EPISOde 1053′ MARY FIX PARK IN SPRING RAIN SHOWER MAY 5. 1053



    The Road Not Taken

    (robert frost)




    Wwhat a grand feeling it was to be once again in Mary Fix Park — 
    a wilderness park where trees live and die where they stood or fell.
    The park is located on an acreage where iwldernesss would be
    least likely.  — the junction of QEW and Hurontaio — dense population yet also room
    for wild creatures like the pair of coyotes who seem to
    be able to raise a [up or two with little difficulty.  

    Mary Fix Park has many Roads Not Taken.  Come walk with me.

     



    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.


  • 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