John; hang onto those treasures. Maybe reward a good friend by setting something aside that your son can deliver. Your family may like to keep a few items to remember you. After all this is part of you. I have a friend in long term care who knows his collection of vacuum tubes are safe with his brother. It makes him happy. I will help the brother sell them when the time is right. I would not like to take anything now. I am 82 and this is the story of my life since Monday. It is great to have friends and people who care for you.
On Monday I was at Pembroke hospital (50km from here) to have skin cancer cut out of my head, it was a minor surgery that took 20 minutes. Tuesday morning was my wife Jan's turn to go in for an operation to remove a kidney stone, and I was to drive her to Pembroke for 8:15. About 3 am Tuesday I woke up with a pain in my lower gut and by 5 am the pain was so severe that Jan called the ambulance. I told her to call one of our friends to take her in (she was thinking of cancelling her surgery), The Deep River (where we live) hospital diagnosed me as having either a twisted bowel or appendicitis. I was rapidly put in another ambulance and sent to Pembroke for a Ct Scan. By 10 am, after having the scan, I was diagnosed with appendicitis. The doctor offered two choices; treat with antibiotics and see if it worked over a few days, or removal. I said that while I was healthy it would be best to operate. If it returned when I was older I might not be as able to recover as fast. The doctor agreed and said that is what she recommended. She said she would shuffle her schedule and do it the same day. Jan had been driven in by our friends Mike and Joyce, and the nurses kept each of us informed of the other's progress and updated Mike. By 4 pm Jan and I were on gurneys beside each other outside the operating room, her on her way out and me on the way in. The nurses had arranged to hold Jan there in recovery knowing we were concerned for each other. The nurses took great care of me and came by often through the night. and chatted if I was awake. The doctor came by in the morning and, after some questions, said she could release me by noon if I felt OK. The nurses arranged for Mike and Jan to come up and wheel me down to the exit where I waited a few minutes while Mike brought the car around and we all, including Joyce who had to wait in the car, drove back to Deep River. Our friend Brian had come by to get the keys Jan had left in our mailbox, and to clear the driveway of snow. But he found someone had cleared it already. We have nice neighbours. It snowed again last night and Brian came by this morning (Thursday) and cleared the driveway with our blower. I think he just wanted to try it because his is not easy to use but I think Jan could use ours. So there is my story of great friends and neighbours and an excellent ambulance and hospital service in our area. I am up walking about this morning and healing fast. It is still a bit painful to stand and sit but I'm not taking any of the pain meds prescribed, just a Naproxen every 12 hours to reduce inflammation. John I am lucky and appreciate it and my friends, and all the ambulance staff, nurses and doctors that helped. I just wish you were so lucky. Stay cheerful and don't dwell on the bad things, Peter On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 2:28 PM Ⓙⓞⓗⓝ Ⓢⓜⓞⓤⓣ <j...@jsdesign.co.uk> wrote: > A huge thank you to all those who have offered to send letters to my wife > for me. I shall be writing to you all in due course. I shall see my son, > who has procured the stationery for me, on Sunday. I can then start to > organise things. > > If there is anyone in the Middle East, or Far East. China, Japan etc. who > could send out some letters for me, then that would be superb. > > Now I have to sort out my clocks, nixies and VFDs and get those dispersed. > > John S > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/529b4833-934e-2f04-428c-e4e553f94117%40jsdesign.co.uk > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/529b4833-934e-2f04-428c-e4e553f94117%40jsdesign.co.uk?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 2:28 PM Ⓙⓞⓗⓝ Ⓢⓜⓞⓤⓣ <j...@jsdesign.co.uk> wrote: > A huge thank you to all those who have offered to send letters to my wife > for me. I shall be writing to you all in due course. I shall see my son, > who has procured the stationery for me, on Sunday. I can then start to > organise things. > > If there is anyone in the Middle East, or Far East. China, Japan etc. who > could send out some letters for me, then that would be superb. > > Now I have to sort out my clocks, nixies and VFDs and get those dispersed. > > John S > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/529b4833-934e-2f04-428c-e4e553f94117%40jsdesign.co.uk > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/529b4833-934e-2f04-428c-e4e553f94117%40jsdesign.co.uk?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. 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