Claudia's 34th birthday today!!
Its bewildering. When we first met all those many summers ago at Lee Abbey, she was 20 and i was 24! What a lot has happened since then..
The day started with Claudia and the boys coming up to me (at my parents) for a birthday breakfast. After some shopping, lunch and pampering in town, she came back to my parents in the afternoon, where family and friends, the Gadsbys, had converged for tea and cake on an almost german scale.
There was a very impressive array of confection - overwhelming in fact, for someone with such a small stomach!
Claudia is now being wined and dined by some doctor friends in town. She SO deserves it!
With my 'recovery filter' on, the day was a rather disrupted pattern of appearing for periods of time, then retreating to bed to build up enough energy for the next appearance. The family were incredibly supportive and overall it was a positive day in terms of the ongoing aches and pains.
It also appears that my weight loss might be slowing down. My mum's food has been exceptional and though my appetite hasn't been heroic, the little and often thing seems to be working.
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Congratulations to Claudia from Swedenfriends. And good to hear that you are better Pete, although still merely a "toddler" of sorts (thinking of the food diary there). You are in our thoughts and prayers. Hearing about how you first time moved outside of the hospital and sat under a parasol was completely moving. I had to explain to a close friend who called just then (Emil, who hosted our wedding party, the blond musically gifted guy) why I was sitting at my kitchen table crying. It reminded me of a hospital near my work. I pass there sometime and see "sick people" walking or sitting outside. They fill me with compassion - and sometimes just a wish for more compassion. Reading you I realized that one of those people sitting on a bench was you - and that it was a major breakthrough to be able to do it; that it was the first fresh air in two or three weeks; that it was (maybe) as much entertainment and pleasure as our family going to Menorca after your stay with us. Back to basics indeed. Baby-steps!
ReplyDeleteTake care,
Morten (and Karin and Vilgot)