April 21, 2008 at 11:49 pm (Heart Strings)
Tags: Australia, children's hospital, emotional, farewell, graduation, hospital, sydney australia
I ran across a video that made me cry.. Despite having spent the majority of 2005 in the hospital – I never thought about what happens to children who grow up spending most of their time at the hospital.. what happens when they become young adults. .. at what age do they stop going to the pediatric centres that they have spent their lives attending – or living in.
Anyway.. I watched this “Emotional Goodbye at Children’s Hospital.. it’s a ‘graduation’ ceremony for several young adults at a childrens hospital in Sydney.. they were old enough to move on to the adult care. One young man had been cared for by the same doctor there for 17 years!! it was an emotional video – but also happy in some ways. I love how they put on this ceremony for them.
For some reason – I couldn’t actually link directly to the video – but if you follow the link – the story is about half way down the page with the video link 
Cheers
M
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April 21, 2008 at 11:33 pm (Heart Strings, Personal Rants, QQ)
Tags: confused chickens, cousin, dumping ground, emotional, silly chickens
Wow.. can’t believe I haven’t posted here since Friday.. I had so much to do over the weekend.,.. and yet, it seems like I’ve done very little. The chickens are quite happy their little house was cleaned from top to bottom and they have new hay to scratch around in. G played around with Big Boop… when he was raking some hay around in the coop she was trying to get a look at what he was doing and he must have threw some hay her way – she went running away squawking and then crowed a little.
A few hours after that – G and I were enjoying a much deserved ice cold pepsi max at the picnic table.. when G said to me, “What is your chicken doing to Lola”…. I looked down and much to my horror……. Big ole Betty had Lola on the ground and had mounted her 
umm… errr…. Betty is female and so is Lola.. so what on gods earth did she think she was doing to her? I wonder if thats normal? Betty sometimes does think she’s a rooster I think… she is the oldest female and clearly at the top of the pecking order – so she may very have filled the void of not having a rooster in the yard. I made her stop – whatever her intentions were – they made me feel a little uncomfortable – but probably not nearly as uncomfortable as poor Lola. One day, I feel certain, she will avenge all the that has been done to her by Boop.
I managed to clear and sweep the entire length of the pathway and G cut the big branches I removed the from apple tree weeks ago. He cut and stacked them just inside the veggie patch out of the way So we did get enough done over the weekend to tire us.. I still need to pick up the rubbish around the yard and sweep the car port. There’s so much to be done before the new fence goes up – and before that dreaded home visit by the OT.
Yesterday I went to the see the therapist – I hadn’t seen her since about November last year.. she was simply amazed at how well I’m doing physically and above all – mentally. I told her I had just plainly had enough of all the ‘bad’ stuff – feeling sorry for myself, allowing myself to be the emotional dumping ground for that cousin of mine who only calls to tell me something horrible has happened to her – but never seems to have a shoulder or ear when I am in need.. the cousin who told me – “You’ll never be as sick as me”…. what kind of person compares illnesses like that?
I have taken my life back – from all … I am the master of my ship.. I want to live again.
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