01/06/25
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Ann @ 11:20 pm
I’m a bit late with my December blog. My world turned upside down when my husband fell and broke his hip in early December. I spent the majority of last month in hospital ERs and in-patient rooms. And then daily visits to rehab at a nursing home. It was wonderful to bring him home December 30. He’s walking well with his walker and busy planning trips around the world. That we will have to wait and see how complete his recovery will be!
We did manage to celebrate Christmas, I spent many late nights preparing gifts for our large family. Thank goodness I had most of my Christmas shopping done early this year. My daughter gave me some time saving advice: “Buy large bags and put everything for each person in one bag.” Instead of wrapping so many individual gifts - it was a lifesaver for me this year! I brought my husband home for day visits on the days the children, grands, great-grands and friends came to celebrate our favorite time of the year.
I read only one book last month. It was a good one: Songbirds by Christy Lefteri. Fiction. 2021. It’s a well-written and well-researched novel about current day life in Cyprus. A place I’ve never been and probably will never go. It describes the lives of indentured domestic workers and the families who employ them, one in particular, Nisha. She crossed oceans from her native Sri Lanka to work as a domestic for Petra and care for her young daughter. After she vanished, Petra and Nisha’s fiance realized how little they knew about Nisha. Songbirds is a haunting story that shows how unfair life is for so many. I highly recommend this novel.
I have watched more TV than I usually do as sat in hospital and rehab rooms with my husband. Mostly Hallmark Christmas movies and somehow I never watched any complete shows. I was deeply impressed with the empathetic, kind and expert nursing care he received at the Bradford Hospital and Penn Highlands in Dubois, PA.
I have taken down our Christmas tree and decorations, though I still have to organize the packing away for next year. I’m still hoping to find time or maybe I’ll have to make time to finish my novel that’s been on hold for many months now.
Till next time, please stay well and keep reading my friends.
Later,
Ann.