Welcome back. Hope your mom gets better. Stick around.
Cheers, Gautam On 4/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll try to be brief. Or as brief as I can be. :-) > > Mom had a colostomy operation a week ago. She's been home about two days. > Seems to be doing okay. But the big issue will be getting her back on her feet > and walking. She hasn't walked since she went into the hospital. Nothing > really > wrong with her legs and feet, but the floors there were slick and she was/is > weak. I am afraid of her losing her mind/body connection with her feet. But I > think I can get her up again. I am hiring a caregiver to help me too. > > She went in last Friday, had the operation Saturday night and was supposed to > be there for a week. > > Since she was gone and I didn't have the expense of paying someone to take > care of her, I thought, sheesh, I should take advantage of this and go > somewhere. > > I okayed it with her doctor. I went last Wed - Thurs. > > I went to Monterey for 2 1/2 days and 2 nights. Saw the 17-mile drive (and > took shots), Carmel (didn't), scenic drive in Carmel (didn't), the Monterey > Aquarium (did), and Monterey Fisherman's Wharf (did). The weather was nice > both > days, just clouding up at night the last day. It was sort of whirlwind, and I > was a bit pushed and tired, but I am glad I got away. > > Also while searching for one particular gallery in Carmel to look at one > particular painter's paintings (which I did finally see), I came across a > photographic gallery. With 8-9 original (resales, not reprints) Ansel > Adams!!! A few > other famous photographers too. > > It was neat to be able to get up and eyeball them closely. Impressive. One > was an Indian pueblo type village with the moon over it. It was selling for > $55,000. One of the smaller cheaper ones was $12,000. I should have written > the > titles down, but didn't. Sooner or later I may find them all, I think I've > seen > reproductions in books of some of them. > > Too bad he couldn't make that much during his lifetime, huh? > > And I had a nice geeky photo hobbyist type talk with the clerk in the gallery. > > I also saw George Lepp's California Poppy Show at the Monterey Natural > History Museum. I didn't know it was going to be there, I just discovered it > was > there by reading a little tourist magazine they hand out in all the hotels and > shops there. I had seen some of his poppy pictures before in a digital > slideshow > when I went to a Lepp weekend about a year ago. But it was nice to see some > prints in person. (Still wish I knew where he found all those fields of > poppies > in CA, he told me, but I never found them. Maybe I will try again.) > > All in all, a satisfying trip. Although I was still pretty tired during it. > And a quite photographic trip. :-) > > I hadn't planned to come back to PDML for about another month. Not until my > programming project is finished. But Mom's operation has derailed me. I think > I'll mainly be busy with her this week. > > So I'll hang around for a week or so until she is better. Then unsubscribe > again to get back to my programming project undistracted. > > I simply don't lurk well. :-) > > Hi guys. Missed you. > > Marnie aka Doe > >
