I cannot believe that so much time has passed since my last post. Most of it its sheer laziness but a lot of it is just, well, life! On August 18th my son left for Hong Kong for 6 months as part of a two year contract with a company that is introducing the world's first robotic lego. Less that two weeks later my daughter left for university. And this kid really lucked out. We had bought our son a used car with quite a few km on it when he was in his 4th year of university. Because he was the director of his university's solar car initiative he often had to come into the city to pick up parts. We had planned on buying him a new car upon graduation (didn't see the whole Hong Kong thing coming at that point) but he said he wanted one then and he would drive it until it "died". So off he goes to Hong Kong and offers his sister his car. He didn't bother asking us, his parents, the financiers of the car, just offered it to her. Anyway, we said she could take it with her to school if she found herself a free parking spot and upgraded her licence to a "G" this rating greatly affects her insurance premiums.
So I spent my time with my kids. On Sept. 8th my husband had a hip replacement. He was only in the hospital for 2 nights. His mom and I made sure he had every gadget made to help people who have been through this procedure. His mom really knew it all because his dad has had both hips done. There were a lot of sleepless nights for the first two weeks. He just couldn't get comfortable. He is also an early riser and I could hear him trying to manoeuvre himself on crutches from the bedroom to the kitchen to make himself breakfast. I had moved some stuff around so there wouldn't be a lot of bending or reaching for him because I knew this was going to happen. He spent the majority of those two weeks sitting on our deck in the beautiful still summer-like weather. I set him up with an anti-gravity lounge chair, a slanted cushion (to promote blood flow) as well as a pillow at the small of his back and one between his back and the chair. When he didn't have someone visiting him he sat out there and called it his "drive-in" because he watched Netflix movies on his phone. He did the small amount of physio he was allowed to do.
After that it was time to go back to work (for him anyway). What you don't know is that my husband is a work-a-holic. His life is (in this order), our kids, me, work, leisure. He rarely takes vacations. Because he is in the food business we have never escaped the cold in Toronto to go somewhere warm during Winter Vacation because that's when people eat.
So, back to the hip replacement. His is an early morning business. He had one of his employees who has to pass our neighbourhood on his way to work drive him there and then he would call me when he was ready to be picked up, usually around lunchtime. Sometimes we would go to visit a client to pick up a cheque or deliver a small order. This continued until the beginning of October. And then, things really started to fall apart.
But that's enough for now. I'll leave you hanging and write the rest of what happened in my next entry but I promise that it will be soon!
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