March 18, is Mom's 5th Dialysis Anniversary! She has made it more than one year past the statistics, according to the American Association of Kidney Patients, for people above 80. We are certainly grateful for having her still with us here on earth. On Sunday, after coming home from Church we did call Mom & Dad via Skype. On her 5th anniversary day she is having again her kidney dialysis.
This is how she is in her hospital bed during the dialysis treatment.
Weekly 3 x about 4 hours on her back...
Boring time and she is longing for some visits of course!
We did go each time when we went to the Netherlands. Also Anita our foster-daughter from Indonesia did visit her together with us.
If we calculate the time she's spent in her dialysis bed that would be non-stop 130, 24-hour days so far...
Quite a challenge but the alternative is no option!
Related links:
{Happy 89th Birthday Dear Mom} | previous post by me
{The Little Black Dress & My MOM} | previous post by me
{Happy 92th Birthday Papa!} | previous post by me - Mom was having dialyis on that day as well.
{Humble Gifts of the 1950s}| previous post by me
{Mom's 4th Dialysis Anniversary} | previous post by me with more pictures of Mom
{60 Years Ago} | previous post by me with Mom's pictures
{GERANIUMS BRINGING BACK CHILDHOOD MEMORIES}| previous post by me
- Thank you all so much for the lovely comments on my previous blog post about my Short Hair (see link below).
- Just like to react to one particular comment; that of Bea from Modern Country Lady.
- Also on my FB Fan Page, Bea did react. She would love to see me once again wearing the Stacked Bob Hairstyle as I have shown in a previous post.
- For your memory I will use the photo here below:
- Bea even did remember my yellow sweater... This was in April of 1992.
- How I myself would LOVE to wear this Stacked Bob Hairstyle again.
The end of 1988... Thick hair!
Would love to still have full hair like that...
Very full hair...
- This was me while working and living in Indonesia in the 90s - healthy and happy hair!
- My natural curls are still there but my hair is no longer that thick and healthy because of the Prednisone that I have taken for almost two years.
- My favorite hair dresser, Peet Kleeven from Happy Hair in my hometown Horst, The Netherlands told me in September 2011 that the very brittle and dry condition + hair loss when shampooing my hair, or brushing it, was a side effect of Prednisone... SCARY!
- During winter time especially it gets so dry, that's also a reason that I had it cut off this week.
- But I did indulge in the world's best hair brush... purchased at Neiman Marcus, see link below post.
- In August of last year I did invest in these two Mason Pearson brushes; one for travel or in my purse and one for at home.
- The cleaning brush (left) is included with the purchase of each brush, except for the pocket size that I got for traveling.
- HOW I also WISH to have bought them sooner...
- Since I brush with those, my hair loss was and is a lot less!
- Hope it will work as well for step-daughter Liz whom we gifted with exactly the same in the spring of 2014. It was very hard to obtain one as Neiman Marcus, neither Nordstrom had ANY. So I had to order mine from the UK and had it mailed to The Netherlands
Though Liz is always SLOW to react, here she shows that the brush is doing its work!
Mason Pearson London - England | link to Mason Pearson in London with history and more info
- Hah, on February 24 I did snip off about 75 Daffodils to fill our unique CIRCLE Vase... Have you ever seen one? Wait and see your first one below!
- Bud vases that are ALL joined together as ONE CIRCLE VASE...
- Have you EVER seen one like that?
- From our entire estate I only got this total yield of daffodils for 2013...
- Using my Gardena Garden scissors.
- But I was very happy with them!
- Cutting them all short, I started arranging them inside these cute bud vases.
- They are in TWO layers...
- YES, TWO layers and all joined together... on top of my Le Jacquard Français tablecloth.
- Next you will get to see the full circle...
- There are 9 vases below and 9 vases above and it also has a separate circle of glass, for using with some displlay...
- THAT I will show you later!
- So what do you think?
- You like this idea of vases linked together?
- I've never ever seen anything like this and below I have only two links that I found with one layer circle vases.
- Found mine on eBay.
Related links:
Gardena 359 All Purpose Stainless Steel Garden Scissors | at Amazon.com
Circle Bud Vase | Circle with 9 bud vases, just scroll down and click on image
Glass Vases | Showing also round circle bud vases
