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To Hell & Back

by Beverley
August 20th, 2012

Well dear friends Fluffy is finally back. Thanks to all of you for the notes and cards and visits and flowers. I’ve had no time to write. And right now I’ve got to head off to Victoria for a feather Blow Dry. I’m a fright! Then I’m going to open a bottle of Mommy’s favorite Pol Roger champagne and since she’s still on pain pills I’ll drink it all myself so cheers to all!!

Once we got out of Cottage Hospital then their marvelous Rehab hospital, Mom was doing so well she tried to show off by climbing a step and fell and really messed up her leg. She had so much pain already from her back surgery then this. She cried all the time between the pain and missing Rennie and her medications being messed up.

I asked her for a quote she said if anyone ever tells her “go to hell!! ” she can truthfully answer “I have been to hell and back”!!!

I’m so happy to be home I’m even glad to see Rennie.

This was the bed we had at one of the four hospitals that we’ve been in the last few months. Not exactly like the one we finally have now that we are home. We do have the neck-roll Ayars Mitchell made for us. Ayars is a cool friend of ours. She’s Aunt Susie’s daughter. What’s really cool is that she has a pet scarlet tarantula named Buttons. Ugh!! I’ll keep Rennie over a bright red tarantula!!!

Someone gave mommy a book about Diana Vreeland: “The Eye Has to Travel” I didn’t understand the concept really. And I couldn’t care less if she pronounced her name Diiana or Deeana which some of our friends argued about! What excited me was seeing a picture of mommy’s and my bed. Well actually it wasn’t ours. It was Baroness Pauline de Rothschild‘s bed. Mommy loved it so Baron Philippe had Waldo Fernandez copy it for mommy and me.

By The Way
This blog was started to sell my new book and I keep going off on other topics. Please do check out The Beautiful Lady Was A Palace Eunuch at Amazon.com
Acknowledgement:
Kathleen Fetner, Technical Advisor and Friend
Categories My Life

Fluffy Here: An Overdue Report

by Beverley
May 18th, 2012

Sitting here I can really keep an eye on Mom

Fluffy here with overdue report,….

Things have been pretty hectic the past ten days. So much confusion with all the nurses coming and going. I follow Mommy all around our house and take care of her. But she was downstairs walking few days ago and she decided to try to do steps out front. Susie and Julie were with her. But suddenly her bad leg buckled under her and she fell!

Rennie isn't much help

We sure didn’t need that after what we’ve been thru! Susie and Julie couldn’t get her up into the wheelchair. But luckily a really nice young man working in Bldg 5 came. He put his arms around under Mom’s arms and clasped them in front of her and he told her to clasp hers on top of his and in one swift movement he had her straight up and into her wheel chair. They decided he must have had paramedic training. He really rescued Mom. Then last night Mommy went to find something In her closet and she left her walker at the door. Next thing she was calling for Susie. She fell again. We are really watching her now. And the doctor is getting strict. She’s been thru so much we are forbidden to upset her. So Rennie and I have to be friends for her sake. She was however very upset her friend Nonie De Limur died.

Jiko and Martin Blakeway were home from Japan for 3 days before they left for Geneva. They came to see us and brought Mommy the poached pears Jiko makes that Mommy loves. I'm checking it out.

Ladys who spends nights with us really makes her laugh. She has a heavy accent from Ecuador and talks very fast. I don’t understand her sometimes but Mommy and aunt Susie do.

Today we got a coffee maker and we had a Coffee Party. Mommy said Ecuadorian way of making coffee is like she gets in Paris. And we had whole wheat English muffins and scrambled eggs. Bob and Carol Jackson bring us fresh eggs every week from their fancy chickens. I can’t wait to tell Babji Mom ate a whole big breakfast. All her doctors have been worried because she wouldn’t eat. But Ladys makes it fun.

Mommy says this blue coral looks like mountains she saw in Yunnan. Doesn't look like mountains to me!

Well guess that’s our news for now.

Most important thing is doctors have found pills that control Mom’s horrendous pain. And she is laughing again.

Love,
Fluffy

Guess I won't sample the apples after all. I don't like the look in his eyes.

By The Way
This blog was started to sell my new book and I keep going off on other topics. Please do check out The Beautiful Lady Was A Palace Eunuch at Amazon.com
Acknowledgement:
Kathleen Fetner, Technical Advisor and Friend
Categories My Life

Fluffy Here: Recovery Progress Report!

by Beverley
May 4th, 2012

Mommy has strange things in this house. Rennie says this is something called a dragon I'm checking out.

Sorry I’ve been out of touch but I’ve had my hands full. We came home a week and half ago and the house has been really crazy. Different nurses three times a day & Rennie barking madly at all of them especially the 11:pm shift. Aunt Susie manages to stay calm & get everything organized. She’s the greatest.

Aunt Susie was holding me up to make friends with Rennie Nurse Juliette was holding Rennie

Uncle Johnny came to visit us & I flew on to is head. He was a good sport. Aunt Susie & Mommy couldn't stop laughing.

We had one really bad night last week. At 4:30 in morning all these big firemen came & took Mommy back to Cottage Hospital. I rode in the ambulance. Rennie had to stay home. She was really jealous I got to go. We came home the next morning.

Mommy has really hurt a lot. She hasn’t been any fun. Thank goodness Aunt Susie is here all the time. Then today my pal Babji came to see us. That’s Dr. Babji Mesipam. He really scolded Mommy. He told her she could keep lying in bed hurting letting the nurses do everything for her or she could get up & force herself to walk & do things for herself no matter how much she hurts & get strong & well.

Well he really knew how to get to Mom. After he left she dressed herself. She uses something like a fishing pole with a giant tweezers on the end to reach her slacks & put them on. What a production. Rennie & I laughed ourselves silly watching her.

Rennie is no help at all! And she's so long she takes up most of Mommy's bed.

Then Aunt Susie, nurse Julia & I took her out in the sunshine for a walk. Julia pushed her in the wheelchair & I rode on Mommy’s shoulder. When we got to the level Mommy used her walker & walked a long way looking at all the flowers. Then we rode home. And we all had dinner in the living room instead of in bed. The sun was shining in on us. Mommy’s wheelchair was in a corner where she could look at our pretty Japanese terrace that our friend Mike Flaherty is taking care of for us and all the flowers people have sent in the living room And she was laughing instead of crying from the pain. So it was a really good day finally I’m happy to report.

Well, Pip pip as Uncle Richard Mineards would say. I don’t know what it means but it sounds funny.

Fluffy

By The Way
This blog was started to sell my new book and I keep going off on other topics. Please do check out The Beautiful Lady Was A Palace Eunuch at Amazon.com
Acknowledgement:
Kathleen Fetner, Technical Advisor and Friend
Categories My Life

Fluffy Here: We’re Home!

by Beverley
April 22nd, 2012

Wow have I been in trouble since you last heard from me. Big trouble!  But I got bored with all the hospitals. First thing I did was land on Mom’s scrambled eggs when Ken brought her breakfast in and I refused to get off them. Ken is an old friend of ours. He was postmaster of our Montecito post office for years.  He brought breakfast every day cause he is something called a volunteer.  Seventeen years he’s been a volunteer at Rehab. Pretty boring if you ask me. That’s why I jumped in the eggs.

This is our friend Ken. Everyone knows him from the Montecito Post Office.

I was a big help to Mommy in the gym however. I sat in front of her on the arm rower and kept saying “faster faster faster!!!” But I liked the barbells best. I had my own little pink one.

Faster Mommy. Faster!

No Fluffy you cannot take your little pink barbell home with us. Read the sign.

Then they told us we were going home. Aunt Susie got us packed up so fast. Everyone came to say goodbye to me. I liked all the attention. But when we got home no one paid any attention to me. Everyone was fussing over Mommy. Nurses coming and going. Aunt Susie making labeled containers of pills and charts.  A physical therapist making Mom walk. Friends bringing food. Flowers everywhere But no one paid any attention to me.

Scruffy visits the patients every day.

All the nurses came to say goodbye to me. Here's Heather kissing me goodbye.

Nick was a really cool guy. He helped Mom so much when she hurt the worst.

Mommy really liked Barbara Hill especially after she found out Barbara got into China in 1973, two years before Mommy.

So I hid. All night and all the next day and the next night. Mommy was in tears. Aunt Susie went all through her car and all the bags again and again. I finally decided they’d learned to appreciate me.  So the second night real late I flew on to the pillow next to Mommy and when she woke up she saw me & she was so happy. And Aunt Susie was so happy. The nurses were happy. And now everyone is paying attention to me again!

Everyone was so happy to have me back they are giving me anything I want.

No one has figured out where I hid when I was lost.

By The Way
This blog was started to sell my new book and I keep going off on other topics. Please do check out The Beautiful Lady Was A Palace Eunuch at Amazon.com
Acknowledgement:
Kathleen Fetner, Technical Advisor and Friend
Categories My Life

Fluffy Here!

by Beverley
April 14th, 2012
Dr Richard Kahmann

Dr. Richard Kahmann

Met doctor who operated on mommy. Dr. Richard Kahmann. He’s a cool guy. He flies just like me. Well he flies a plane & I’ve got my own wings. Mom likes him cause she thinks he did a good job but mainly because he was interested in the little bound feet she’s always talking about. Dr. Babji Mesipam comes too. Babji & I are old pals. He’s our regular doctor. And so many nice nurses who are always smiling are helping mom not hurt so much.

I hope she doesn’t get spoiled & expect that kind of service from me ’cause I’ll be on my own for awhile. Rennie won’t be allowed home for awhile because shes too heavy. She weighs 12 pounds & I’m light as a feather. Ha ha ha!

Now we’re at another hospital called Rehab. One thing I’ve noticed in all of them they talk so much about the bathroom. Would you believe in one place they rolled the bathroom right up to Mommy’s bed. I don’t understand it. I just go wherever I happen to be standing like Rennie does!

Mommy had a cool roommate first few days in the Rehab Hospital. Her name was Barbara Gordon. The two of them giggled over everything. Stuff I didn’t think was funny. Even when they were moaning for pain medicine. I liked Barbara’s husband Collin too. He talked like Barbara. They were from England. I landed on Collin’s head one night & he just laughed. Then yesterday they went home and we got what I thought was a woman but Mom called her a nightmare. She was really loud & rude to all my nice friends here who take such good care of Mommy & that made both of us mad. THEN she snores all night. Someone said like a volcano erupting.

Well all my friends here went to work on it today & we’ve got a cozy little nest of our own. Aunt Susie (Mommy calls her St Suzie) got us all moved while we were in the gym doing weird things. Then Linda came with our mail & stuff & we all had lunch together. Aunt Susie brings her own every day. She sort of lives with us now & Uncle Johnny & J J & Ayers say its okay cause they want Mommy to get well.

Wonder if there’s any Easter candy left in here?

Fluffy

Ugh!!! It's bitter little pills.

By The Way
This blog was started to sell my new book and I keep going off on other topics. Please do check out The Beautiful Lady Was A Palace Eunuch at Amazon.com
Acknowledgement:
Kathleen Fetner, Technical Advisor and Friend
Categories My Life

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