My Day - My Year - My Life: February 2010

Feburary started off quietly, I felt like I was finally feeling better after the bug that has plagued me since Christmas.

Work was busy but we were restricted somewhat by the Paypal corporation requesting more information about the business, and then admin having trouble finding the required documentation for them. Took nearly 3 weeks to sort it out. As soon as the restriction was lifted I made work a couple of thousand dollars in the first week. Then the software I use crashed, and I can't install new software.... More restrictions from admin. They have to call contract I.T. Guys to come and re-install any software or download any updates. Still waiting for that to happen. Consequently I had to do a lot of the work at home. That's ok, I can do in minutes on my computer at home what takes hours to do at work, so not quite as frustrating.

On Thursday the 18th of Feb I got a got a call at lunch time to say that Auntie Joy only had a few hours left. She has not been well for a couple of years but the last eight weeks have been awful for her. She was in so much pain and morphine didn't even take the edge of it.

So I quickly drove down to Campbell Town. She was quite out to it with a massive dose of morphine. They were administering morphine via an automatic pump but the dose was not strong enough so they had to give her top up hits every now and then.

When I got there Sue, Mary and Phyllis and John were there but were just about to leave to go home to pick up Michael from the airport as he was flying down from Townsville to see Aunty Joy.

After they left Mrs Marshall called in to say hello. Sister Marjorie popped in to say that Father Mark Freeman (the Vicar General) was on his way up from Hobart to give her the last rites.

Then Judy Gregg called in and we sat with Joycie for a while.

No sooner had Judy left than Fr Mark and Sr Marj arrived. Once Father Mark had gone Sister Marj and I went over to visit Uncle Keith in the nursing home.

I went back and sat with Aunty Joyce again, then Mary arrived with Michael. We had a good old natter, Michael is running as the Greens candidate for Townsville at the next federal election and listening to him talk, I can see how passionate he is about the environment and everything.

I left Mary and Mike there with Auntie Joy while I went down to Zepps to get something to eat. I got a nice takeaway pumpkin soup which was very peppery. Thank goodness I also grabbed a slice of hedgehog slice.

Mary and Mike left around 10.30pm. Joycie had been a bit restless until they gave her some more morphine . I settled down with a pile of magazines and dozed on and off during the night. She was a little restless around 2am then quite settled till about 8am. She was quite awake Friday morning and knew we were all there.

Sister Marj called in around 8.30 and stayed until Mary and Mike arrived.

I had been at the hospital for 18 hours so I left Mary and Mike there and drove home. I called into work on the way and told them I was grabbing whatever needed to be posted then I was going home for the rest of the day.

Peter left straight after work to go up to Arthurs Lake to stay with Peter Rasmussen at his shack.

My car had no headlights so I wasn't able to go anywhere that night.

I ran Sue to see how she got on at the hospital today. She has to have her kidney removed, The good news is that it is not malignant and the bad news is she will not be able to make it to my birthday :-(

As long as she's ok, that's the main thing!

I don't know how I managed it, but I stayed awake until midnight. Just as I was going to bed, Sue rang me to let me know that Auntie Joy had just passed away. Mary was with her.

We had the funeral on Tuesday 23rd. A sad occasion but we had a lovely day.

The service was at 10.30 at Campbell Town.

At the start of the ceremony Frances, Margaret and myself took the symbols up. Angelina and Krissie did the Offertery.

Monica and Phyllis did the prayers of the faithful and Mary and Sue did a lovely job of delivering the eulogy.

We all went to the bowls club where the ladies put on a magnificent lunch. It was great to catch up with the other cousins, Tony from Longford and Paul, Wendy, Jason, Tamara and Matthew and his new wife George. Jason and Tamara also have a new baby Maddison who is now six months old, so it was great to meet her and have lots of cuddles.

We had to leave by 2pm to go back to Launceston as Peter had a dental appointment. Then after that we went over to Jacks place to pick up some stuff he is giving us as he is moving to Melbourne.

What a day!

A Weekend of wining and dining.

Saturday: We went for a drive up to the Great Lake and stopped off at the pub for lunch. There we met up with friends Jack and Sue.    Of course we had a few extra drinks over dinner with them.   I had chicken and veg soup for entree and some Lasagne for my main.
Peter had sausages eggs and chips.

After we left Miena/Great Lake, we drove around to Arthurs Lake and just as we were driving down Dolerite Crescent, Susie and Peter Rasmussen had just arrived at their shack.   We spent the rest of the afternoon sitting in the sunshine on their deck sipping champagne and nibbling on Jo's homemade shortbread.

Sunday: A sunny glorious day. Not too much wind either.   Sue and Jack came up for a BBQ so we were able to eat out on the balcony, which is a rare occurence here as we nearly always get blown off our balcony.   Peter cooked some steak that Jack bought and some chicken kebabs and some flathead on the BBQ and I made a garden salad out of vegies out of our own garden.
We finished off with a cheese platter and slices of watermelon.

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