raising willow… and dexter!

Nanna rang today to report that Poppa has recovered quite a lot. His pancreas is better, but it looks like his gall bladder will have to be removed. Unfortunatly since he is 74 and has diabetes, he might have to have surgery here in Adelaide. This was not good news for Poppa. Last time he [...]

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I received an awful phone call this afternoon. I’d kind of been expecting it – Nanna rang to say that my Poppa is in hospital, in the high dependency unit. He is on oxygen, a drip and receiving blood transfusions. He doesn’t think he’ll come home. This is what has upset her the most, that [...]

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We had a new mattress delivered yesterday and Dexter slept for 5 hours straight from 12-5am. I feel like a new woman! The only problem is that it is at least 20cm thicker than our old mattress, so we have had to raise the cot mattress by that much. I think we have half the [...]

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A has just taken Willow up to the shop to get an icecream, so I thought I thought I’d sit outside in the courtyard and wait for them to get back. It was supposed to be 32 degrees here today, but it is a lot cooler than that. I did want to clean out the [...]

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