Archive for 2013

Aug 18, 2013

Canadian Home Builder Awards

Colin has been doing photography for these awards for at least 20 years.  When we lived in Vancouver they were called the Georgie Awards and here in Kelowna they are called the Tommie Awards.  The awards are entered by builders, interior designers and anyone in the housing industry.  There are dozens of categories from Best […]

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Aug 17, 2013

Cracked hip !

More specifically an evolsion fracture of the trochanter. No not me.  Sadly it is my father. Late Thursday the hospital did a second CT scan as Dad continued to be in a huge amount of pain and could not weight bear at all.  We finally got the results late Friday afternoon.  Meanwhile Dad has been reacting […]

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Aug 15, 2013

UPDATES

Would you believe I have still not spoken to my Dad?  Would you believe that he never got into a proper bed and out of Emergency until 4PM the next day ( yesterday ).  So he was in ER for close to 28 hours.  By the time my sister got there last night Dad was […]

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Aug 14, 2013

Yet another crisis

I received a frantic call from the Alberta Health Home Care system yesterday afternoon.  Did I know where my Dad was?  I knew he was out and that he should be home by then.  They were there to take off his elastic stockings.   I told them I would call back.  No answer on anyones […]

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Aug 13, 2013

Que pasa!

Tis the season and we are busy eating as many cherries, apricots and peaches as we can.  So fresh and so very tasty.  Sadly it remains very hot and that brings thundershowers and lightening strikes.  It is always hot and dry here in the Okanagan Valley but not usually for weeks and weeks like this […]

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