And don't forget that we'll also be teaching her to play mountain dulcimer!!!Azalin wrote:Perfect! Let me know Roland when she's ready to hear the great news: that she's going to be picking up the concertina this year and throw away all of her whistles!
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Well, now, I think she's been through enough pain alreadymissy wrote:And don't forget that we'll also be teaching her to play mountain dulcimer!!!Azalin wrote:Perfect! Let me know Roland when she's ready to hear the great news: that she's going to be picking up the concertina this year and throw away all of her whistles!
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Hiya Lesley! Glad you're home!!
Hiya Ro! Glad she's home!
Hiya Ro! Glad she's home!
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Hello again!
Ro is now asleep (!) so I have sneaked back onto the computer, while I am still awake!
I want to say two very important things, if I may. The first is the most enormous thank you to all of you here, who have been such an amazing support to Ro, and thus to me. I felt that I was not leaving him unsupported, should I not have made it, and I am eternally grateful to you all.
My other enormous thank you, and the reason why I am typing this while Ro is asleep and not asking him to do it for me, is to Ro himself. He has been wonderful and I could never have coped without him. This is not just something recent, though: he has always been my husband, partner, lover and best friend, through the whole of our life together. My life would have been indescribably poorer without his love and companionship. I don't want even to imagine it.
He has put up with my red-haired temper all these years, my noisiness, whistling late at night, singing out of tune, practising dances and falling over his feet or mine, and has cheerfully fixed things, made them as I want them, mended stuff I broke, made bits to make life easier, etc. Thank you, Ro. I love you.
I look forward to meeting you all properly! You know so much about me now it is almost embarrassing: at least I can't shock you any further! Thank you all.
Lesley
PS The jokes were just wonderful!! Now I need a nap!
Ro is now asleep (!) so I have sneaked back onto the computer, while I am still awake!
I want to say two very important things, if I may. The first is the most enormous thank you to all of you here, who have been such an amazing support to Ro, and thus to me. I felt that I was not leaving him unsupported, should I not have made it, and I am eternally grateful to you all.
My other enormous thank you, and the reason why I am typing this while Ro is asleep and not asking him to do it for me, is to Ro himself. He has been wonderful and I could never have coped without him. This is not just something recent, though: he has always been my husband, partner, lover and best friend, through the whole of our life together. My life would have been indescribably poorer without his love and companionship. I don't want even to imagine it.
He has put up with my red-haired temper all these years, my noisiness, whistling late at night, singing out of tune, practising dances and falling over his feet or mine, and has cheerfully fixed things, made them as I want them, mended stuff I broke, made bits to make life easier, etc. Thank you, Ro. I love you.
I look forward to meeting you all properly! You know so much about me now it is almost embarrassing: at least I can't shock you any further! Thank you all.
Lesley
PS The jokes were just wonderful!! Now I need a nap!
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Welcome home, Lesley. I'm glad you're home!
Please take it slowly and give yourself time to recover.
Warm healing thoughts to the both of you,
--James
Please take it slowly and give yourself time to recover.
Warm healing thoughts to the both of you,
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Yup, he's a keeper!
You both are!
Teary joyful (gentle, don't want to risk hurting you!) hugs to both!
You both are!
Teary joyful (gentle, don't want to risk hurting you!) hugs to both!
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All is well with us tonight! I haven't been able to report that for a while!
Lesley is asleep - again! She is still incredibly frail, although her will is so strong. Just getting up exhausts her, as does sitting up, reading, walking to the loo (which is still a great joy!) - everything really. She does a bit, sleeps a bit, does a bit, sleeps a bit. Lots of whistling, which she really enjoys - at last she can make a noise again, after those weeks of using the mute (except for "her tune"). She can't manage the guitar yet, or the low whistle. Dulcimer and concertina may have to wait a bit!
We are managing the cooking, with Patricia's kind help, and the shower seat has come, although Lesley did like my plastic chair! I can do the washing machine (thanks, folks) and Lesley can instruct me in other essential skills. I know she is looking forward to being able to do more on here, but sitting and typing wear her out at present. I notice she has done some, though!
Plenty of visitors from work for her, who stay until she falls asleep! We are not terribly sociable! Lesley spends time just watching the birds on the feeders in the tree by the window. She has been outside, but by the time she makes it to the door she is already exhausted, so I have wheeled her down the garden a couple of times. That, apparently, is being a wimp, as is using the Zimmer frame! She gets round by hanging onto the furniture, the walls, me . . .
I hope that with all this rest she gradually mends, and is slowly able to take up her life again. It is so good to have her here.
Thank you again, friends.
Ro
Lesley is asleep - again! She is still incredibly frail, although her will is so strong. Just getting up exhausts her, as does sitting up, reading, walking to the loo (which is still a great joy!) - everything really. She does a bit, sleeps a bit, does a bit, sleeps a bit. Lots of whistling, which she really enjoys - at last she can make a noise again, after those weeks of using the mute (except for "her tune"). She can't manage the guitar yet, or the low whistle. Dulcimer and concertina may have to wait a bit!
We are managing the cooking, with Patricia's kind help, and the shower seat has come, although Lesley did like my plastic chair! I can do the washing machine (thanks, folks) and Lesley can instruct me in other essential skills. I know she is looking forward to being able to do more on here, but sitting and typing wear her out at present. I notice she has done some, though!
Plenty of visitors from work for her, who stay until she falls asleep! We are not terribly sociable! Lesley spends time just watching the birds on the feeders in the tree by the window. She has been outside, but by the time she makes it to the door she is already exhausted, so I have wheeled her down the garden a couple of times. That, apparently, is being a wimp, as is using the Zimmer frame! She gets round by hanging onto the furniture, the walls, me . . .
I hope that with all this rest she gradually mends, and is slowly able to take up her life again. It is so good to have her here.
Thank you again, friends.
Ro
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Well said.Martin Milner wrote:One thing that shines through is Roland and Lesley's zest for life.
Despite past bad experiences, this is undiminished, and is a great power on the road to recovery.
Take it slowly Lesley, and don't forget you need rest too Roland!
Even when Roland posted bad news there was always a positive thread running through it.
The main lesson I have learned from Roland's posts is the incredible power of nasal hair.
Much to the consternation of my wife I have stopped clipping mine and I feel like a new man.
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