Today, when I was doing research for my term paper, I found an old note I had written a couple of years ago.
I thought id post it before I threw out the note, so here it is.
So small
so fragile
Will you be dead tomorrow
Are you in pain my dear
is that why you are sleeping
are you walking tomorrow
are you hungry today
why are you so silent
It's a bad and silly poem, but i wrote what was running through my head.
If I remember correctly I was sitting in bed in the middle of the night watching my husband sleep. The same day I had been at the hospital visiting my friends newborn baby. He had nearly died, and the image of him laying there was somewhat haunting me. It was also during one of the more difficult periods of my husbands depression and I was always wondering if he would come home to me.
Thankfully those days are behind us now, and we are again happy and smiling.
Nov 19, 2010
Nov 12, 2010
Hapiness and Sorrow, a heavy couple of weeks.
Today we buried my grandmother, the last of my grand parents. She was supposed to celebrate her 88th birthday in a few days, but 2 weeks ago she had a stroke and ended up in the hospital. I flew down to visit her and when I got back up north, her health started deteriorating rapidly and this wednesday she died in her bed at the care center.
She was the last of the real, true housemothers of my family, and we will all miss her very much. She was always all about work, never letting her hands fall idle. She knitted, embroidered, wove, croched, cooked and cleaned, and she loved it. When we were children she would baby-sit us and she would keep us busy by teaching us how to bake, weave, knit or anything else productive. When we wanted to run around and just be noisy, she would either let us be noisy while doing something usefull like getting fire wood or she would send us outside to play.
One day I hope I can be as good a housewife as she... one day.
On a happier note: 5 weeks ago one of our cats disappeared. She had not been seen since, but wednesday noon I got a text-message from one of our neighboroughs saying that we should take a look in the paper. A cat had been found and the vet was looking for her owners.
My husband called them and described her to them , and they told him that he should come over and take a look. And lo and behold! It was our sweet cat! She had been trapped in the remote-heating machinery room at the hospital for 5 weeks, and when the people from the electric company whent to plug a leak (the same one that probably had been keeping her alive for 5 weeks) she came stumbling out, dehydrated and skinny as h***. They shipped her of to the vet immediatly and a news reporter picked up the story the same day, and the next day we found out.
She has been without food and proper drink for so long that her liver and intestines had all but shut completely down. We got her back yesturday and I was shocked to see the shape she was in.
She used to weigh about 4kg, now she is barely 1.8kg and nothing but skin and bones, but from todays blood tests and liver tests she is healing. The friend who is cat-sitting her sendt us a picture and a status report telling us that she's is doing better.
Here is a picture of our baby Aibast II taken today.
She was the last of the real, true housemothers of my family, and we will all miss her very much. She was always all about work, never letting her hands fall idle. She knitted, embroidered, wove, croched, cooked and cleaned, and she loved it. When we were children she would baby-sit us and she would keep us busy by teaching us how to bake, weave, knit or anything else productive. When we wanted to run around and just be noisy, she would either let us be noisy while doing something usefull like getting fire wood or she would send us outside to play.
One day I hope I can be as good a housewife as she... one day.
On a happier note: 5 weeks ago one of our cats disappeared. She had not been seen since, but wednesday noon I got a text-message from one of our neighboroughs saying that we should take a look in the paper. A cat had been found and the vet was looking for her owners.
My husband called them and described her to them , and they told him that he should come over and take a look. And lo and behold! It was our sweet cat! She had been trapped in the remote-heating machinery room at the hospital for 5 weeks, and when the people from the electric company whent to plug a leak (the same one that probably had been keeping her alive for 5 weeks) she came stumbling out, dehydrated and skinny as h***. They shipped her of to the vet immediatly and a news reporter picked up the story the same day, and the next day we found out.
She has been without food and proper drink for so long that her liver and intestines had all but shut completely down. We got her back yesturday and I was shocked to see the shape she was in.
She used to weigh about 4kg, now she is barely 1.8kg and nothing but skin and bones, but from todays blood tests and liver tests she is healing. The friend who is cat-sitting her sendt us a picture and a status report telling us that she's is doing better.
Here is a picture of our baby Aibast II taken today.
Nov 2, 2010
24 Long hours
I am utterly exhausted! I have been traveling for 24 hours, and it has certainly taken it's toll on me.
Last tuesday my grandmother collapsed and broke her pelvis 2 places and suffered a stroke. We don't really know came first: the fall or the stroke, but she was very ill. My mother called me and told me that I should consider going back south to see her... possible for the last time. She is 88 years old and has a bad heart, so the possibility that she won't recover is quite high, so I jumped on the internett and bought a plane ticket.
So since wednesday I have been on the west coast staying with my parents. I also got to go to the baptism of my newest niece. She is so cute! And she has the same hair as me - red! I also visited my best friends and my in-laws.
It was a great trip all in all... untill yesturday. I was flying down to Oslo to fly back to Tromsø around 4pm yesturday, but the weather here (in Tromsø) was extremely windy so they closed the airport. We waited for 2 hours on the plane before they told us we would not be able to leave for Tromsø that night. We got new tickets for 6:30 this morning and a hotel room for the night. The hotel room was nice, but I had big problems falling asleep, so I only got 2 hours of sleep before I had to get up and leave for the airport at 4 am.
I checked in, got to the gate and sat down with my computer to read a litle for my term paper due this week. After about 10 minutes a message came up on the screen that we would get more info at 7:15 - 45 minutes after original departure. And the message was that with the cross-winds at Tromsø Airport they would not be flying us there at that time. Yeay! I though... another long wait!! Really not what I wanted.
Around 7:30 we was told that we would be leaving a litle after 8. So we boarded and thought that now we would finally get to go to Tromsø... but alas. After 20 minutes the captain told us that he could not land in Tromsø, but we would be flying to Bardufoss (about 130 kilometers from Tromsø) and land there. From there we would go by buss. And so we did... And I arrived in Tromsø hungry as h***, thirsty and sleepy a litle over 24 hours after I left from my mothers.
So now that I'm finally fed and have slept am hour or so, I am finally in good spirit again ^^.
Have you ever been un-intentionally travelled for a whole day before?
Last tuesday my grandmother collapsed and broke her pelvis 2 places and suffered a stroke. We don't really know came first: the fall or the stroke, but she was very ill. My mother called me and told me that I should consider going back south to see her... possible for the last time. She is 88 years old and has a bad heart, so the possibility that she won't recover is quite high, so I jumped on the internett and bought a plane ticket.
So since wednesday I have been on the west coast staying with my parents. I also got to go to the baptism of my newest niece. She is so cute! And she has the same hair as me - red! I also visited my best friends and my in-laws.
It was a great trip all in all... untill yesturday. I was flying down to Oslo to fly back to Tromsø around 4pm yesturday, but the weather here (in Tromsø) was extremely windy so they closed the airport. We waited for 2 hours on the plane before they told us we would not be able to leave for Tromsø that night. We got new tickets for 6:30 this morning and a hotel room for the night. The hotel room was nice, but I had big problems falling asleep, so I only got 2 hours of sleep before I had to get up and leave for the airport at 4 am.
I checked in, got to the gate and sat down with my computer to read a litle for my term paper due this week. After about 10 minutes a message came up on the screen that we would get more info at 7:15 - 45 minutes after original departure. And the message was that with the cross-winds at Tromsø Airport they would not be flying us there at that time. Yeay! I though... another long wait!! Really not what I wanted.
Around 7:30 we was told that we would be leaving a litle after 8. So we boarded and thought that now we would finally get to go to Tromsø... but alas. After 20 minutes the captain told us that he could not land in Tromsø, but we would be flying to Bardufoss (about 130 kilometers from Tromsø) and land there. From there we would go by buss. And so we did... And I arrived in Tromsø hungry as h***, thirsty and sleepy a litle over 24 hours after I left from my mothers.
So now that I'm finally fed and have slept am hour or so, I am finally in good spirit again ^^.
Have you ever been un-intentionally travelled for a whole day before?
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