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December 13, 2005
Monday is gone. Thank God
Two weeks ago I booked in the car to have some major work done it this Monday (yesterday). I was up very early to take Graham to the airport and instead of going back to bed at 6 o'clock I stayed up to do some work on the computer. Woke Jess up at 7.30 with the plan of being at the garage by 8.30. I didn't take in the needs of a teenage girl, she wasn't ready by 8.30.....by this time I was starting to feel a little tired and a wee bit stressed. We eventually got there at 9 and then we caught the bus into the city to have a fun day of shopping and going to the movies. By the time we got there we decided that we would do the movie first. We saw the 'Corpse Bride’; the only positive thing that I can say about it is that the animation is great. Story line is corny and not suitable for the age that I think that are aiming it at. I still have very vivid memory of the worm crawling out of the eyehole of the bride .Awful.
You know some days you are in the mood for shopping and everything thing falls into place, well, yesterday was not like that. I was going to get a new top and some new underwear, there was nothing I liked in my size in the tops, and there was the size above and below. Don’t you hate that? I then got a call from our video shop saying that Myer was trying to track Jessie down as they had her purse. She couldn’t find it that morning. She had left it in the shop department at Myers on Saturday morning and had looked for it at home and couldn’t seem to find it. At least we were already in the shop, we went up to the lay-by area as that is where they have ‘lost property ‘. They only had her purse not her bag or phone. They sent us back down to the shop department, no sign of it but they asked us to leave my mobile number. We then went to have a look at the new David Jones and Queens Arcade, while there I got a phone call to say that they had found her bag and phone. We tracked back up to Myers to pick it up and decided to call it a day. We caught the bus back to Ashgrove only to find that they had not touched the car as they hadn’t ordered the parts and they were waiting all day for them to come in. I was clam, I was rational, and I re-booked the car and left for home thinking very dark thoughts about them.
But our day seem trivial by the news that we got when we got home. Pen was in hospital in Sri Lanka with very serious back pain. Sri Lanka is too far away when something like this happens. All different thoughts went through my head as to what it could be, but remarkably I was calm as I had seen the hospital when I was there and had been impressed by the facilities and the care that the staff took. I keep trying to get through to her mobile but it was turned off, which did not help my thoughts. I eventually got through to one of her friends and she gave me her new work mobile (which she had just got). By that time all the test results were back. It is a partially slipped disk. It will need rest and pshyo. Although it is extremely painful, it is something that can be fixed. Thank God. Oh and I had better cancel that plane ticket.
Posted by Sandra Boddington at December 13, 2005 12:13 PM
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Hoepfully you wnt have any trouble with the car getting fixed tomorrow. See you in the morning.
Posted by: Suzy at December 13, 2005 11:37 PM
Wow Sandar what a day!!! hope Pen's slip disk heals nice and quickly for her that can't be any fun at all!!! - and I hope the car is fixed nice and quick too .. but that might be streching our luck so I'll just leave it at Pen - at least we know that's something that would have the higher possiblity of happening ;)
Posted by: Peta at December 14, 2005 01:16 AM
What a day! Lots of running around in circles, and not much achieved, I guess! Some good things tho, Jessie's bag being found, and relatively good news about Pen's back ... hang in there! :)
Posted by: ksharonk at December 14, 2005 09:20 PM
Well hopefully now you have gotten the bad day out of the way - all the good ones will follow - thinking happy thoughts for you Sandra and hoping Pen's recovery is speedy.
Posted by: Sue at December 15, 2005 12:19 AM
Dearest mum,
What a day and sorry to add to your woes - i know what you mean about being far away! I love you and your good thoughts you sent me - I'm sure it helped me get better.
I'm feeling much better now having pyshio each day and also resting. Half day today at work as the exhibition opens next week but I have not been in pain for the last two days.
Good luck with the car, love you and the design of Jess is gorgeous!!!
By the way, the earings are also beautiful. I'll call on the weekend - love pen
Posted by: Pen at December 15, 2005 04:15 PM