Day 190, Year 10: Positive Thoughts for Patsy
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2015
Weather: Mostly Cloudy with Rain Overnight and Early Morning
Location: Lightkeepers Marina, Little River, SC
Today was certainly a better day than yesterday aboard Windbird, but we can attribute that to the fact that we weren’t on the boat for most of the day. This was our day to go to Patsy and Joe’s and get a few jobs done there. Unfortunately we overdid it as my sister Patsy had to be taken to the Emergency Room tonight. Joe left with Patsy after dinner and will call us as soon as he knows something. But as he said when he left, he’s pretty sure he knows the drill by now. This is the third time Patsy has had to go to the Emergency Room with a partial bowel obstruction. She was working with me in the attic this morning and was doing a fair bit of bending over. That seems to trigger something in her intestines and almost immediately causes the bowel to twist. I know she must be terribly frustrated with this recurring problem, but if surgery is the solution, she hopes to avoid that. Joe was insistent that he take her tonight, but we are going to head to bed early in case reinforcements are needed. All of our positive thoughts are with Patsy tonight.
I’ll only mention one other thing and that is the weather. It has pretty much been raining ever since we got here and today was no exception. But we did have a couple of hours of partial sunshine this afternoon and I took advantage of it to take some photos around Patsy and Joe’s house. Rain or no rain, it is certainly springtime here. The azaleas are in full bloom and are just beautiful. And when the sun came out this afternoon, every bird, bee, and butterfly in the neighborhood was flitting around the pink blossoms on the azaleas and the Indian Hawthorne shrubs in Patsy and Joe’s yard. It was beautiful.
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