When I was phoning my collegues for telling them about my sick-leaves extension there were the questions again:
- how are you
- what are you doing
I hate those questions!
What am I doing? The same I had done in January when being unemployed: I read books (I am reading the 9th in 3 weeks now)and watch DvD's (what a pity there are only 8 seasons McLeod Daughters - they had been finished in March or April and today I finished Harry Potter as well!).
What else? I am learning English grammar once more and do hope it will stay in my mind for quite some time. I did inform about the special needs study which I can (and am going to) apply for from the 8.6 onwards.
After having finished a little spring clean I put different stuff on ebay and hope it will be sold - otherwise, that is a promise, I will through everything out!
You see, all activities I can put my leg up; but as you might know I cannot rest all day. So, of course, I walk 'a lot' - maybe an hour in the morning. When being back home my foot is aching and I am happy about putting it up again...
The nicest thing is - the sun did shine 3 days last week and the weather should be fine naxt week as well. If that's the case ypu can expect me sitting outside in the sun and getting some colour!!!!
Freitag, 29. Mai 2009
Montag, 25. Mai 2009
Just some pictures
26.03.2009 - Dinner at my birthday with sushi and cheese platter
1.01.2009 - 7.30am having breakfast on the patio
10.04.2009 - 3.00pm enjoing the first warm & sunny day on my patio
02.05.2009 - heavy rain in the late afternoon
18.05.2009 - 5.30pm being back home with these lovely crutches; one day the desinfektion stuff will wash off - I hope
21.05.2009 - the first BBQ this Year; Father's Day and the weather is great
1.01.2009 - 7.30am having breakfast on the patio
10.04.2009 - 3.00pm enjoing the first warm & sunny day on my patio
02.05.2009 - heavy rain in the late afternoon
18.05.2009 - 5.30pm being back home with these lovely crutches; one day the desinfektion stuff will wash off - I hope
21.05.2009 - the first BBQ this Year; Father's Day and the weather is great
Samstag, 23. Mai 2009
Illuminati
has started the 13th this month in the movies over here - I watched it on wendsday.
I love Dan Brown's books - have read The Davinci Code,Illuminati and Meteor several times.
When I watched The Davinci Code I was quite unsure - not a bad movie but the book was times better. So this time it was the same - would the film rival the book?
Tom Hanks is Prof. Langdon again; this time the location is placed in Rome - how nice the scenery is... Remembered myself of being in Rome again...
Anyway - the movie itself: Not bad at all. As far as I can remember there are not many things cut out. It is not too bloody but thrilling.
Again my problems with 'excess lenght' movies - these damned break after 90minutes (60minutes film and 30min adverts before).
One good thing about the adverts & trailor:
I did see some nice ones and will go to see them soon:
Night in the museum 2 (did start on thursday)
Harry Potter and the half blood prince (15.7)
The Proposal (30.7)
Pope Joan (29.10)
I love Dan Brown's books - have read The Davinci Code,Illuminati and Meteor several times.
When I watched The Davinci Code I was quite unsure - not a bad movie but the book was times better. So this time it was the same - would the film rival the book?
Tom Hanks is Prof. Langdon again; this time the location is placed in Rome - how nice the scenery is... Remembered myself of being in Rome again...
Anyway - the movie itself: Not bad at all. As far as I can remember there are not many things cut out. It is not too bloody but thrilling.
Again my problems with 'excess lenght' movies - these damned break after 90minutes (60minutes film and 30min adverts before).
One good thing about the adverts & trailor:
I did see some nice ones and will go to see them soon:
Night in the museum 2 (did start on thursday)
Harry Potter and the half blood prince (15.7)
The Proposal (30.7)
Pope Joan (29.10)
Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009
Nebbia
Saturday the Magic Flute and Sunday Nebbia presented from the Cirque Éloise Montréal.
Singing, dancing, music, jugglery, acrobatic and magic.
It was a nice show but unfortunate the artists did speak a lot - a mixture form Italian, French and English; not very good but I could understand.
The differnt parts were worked in a story about fog (Nebbia): The regisseur Daniele Finzi Pasca (did lead the closing ceremony in Turin 2006) is remembered of early mornig fog which billows fly over the sea to the coast...
Vertical rope, trampoline, rotating plates on sticks, artistic - I have seen much harder artistic but never put in such a nice story!
Singing, dancing, music, jugglery, acrobatic and magic.
It was a nice show but unfortunate the artists did speak a lot - a mixture form Italian, French and English; not very good but I could understand.
The differnt parts were worked in a story about fog (Nebbia): The regisseur Daniele Finzi Pasca (did lead the closing ceremony in Turin 2006) is remembered of early mornig fog which billows fly over the sea to the coast...
Vertical rope, trampoline, rotating plates on sticks, artistic - I have seen much harder artistic but never put in such a nice story!
Samstag, 16. Mai 2009
The Magic Flute
is presented by an australian group in my hometown!
Co-opera ( http://co-opera.com.au/ )are off to make their first appearances in Europe. The opera management of the 'Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden' has invited Co-Opera to perform in the celebrated May Festival '09 and show to German audiences The Magic Flute production.
There was an article in the newspaper and so I called the hotline to get some last tickets - no problem. My mom was to come along - I need a driver!
The story is placed in a restaurant in the 60's. Prince Tamino would like getting Pamina to know. Some employees - among them Papageno, a clumsy chicken delivery boy, who knows everything about the chef cook Monostatos' mischief.
Like in the classical oper the figures in these variation are menlike and magical; the music is pure Mozart.
A simple scenery - only a scaffolding - is sufficient: the company achieves a maximum of theater with a minimum of equipment.
Special is - the Flute was given in english and parts of it in german as well - so my mum could understand as well...
The spectators were amazed, longtime applause and standing ovations at the end!!!
Co-opera ( http://co-opera.com.au/ )are off to make their first appearances in Europe. The opera management of the 'Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden' has invited Co-Opera to perform in the celebrated May Festival '09 and show to German audiences The Magic Flute production.
There was an article in the newspaper and so I called the hotline to get some last tickets - no problem. My mom was to come along - I need a driver!
The story is placed in a restaurant in the 60's. Prince Tamino would like getting Pamina to know. Some employees - among them Papageno, a clumsy chicken delivery boy, who knows everything about the chef cook Monostatos' mischief.
Like in the classical oper the figures in these variation are menlike and magical; the music is pure Mozart.
A simple scenery - only a scaffolding - is sufficient: the company achieves a maximum of theater with a minimum of equipment.
Special is - the Flute was given in english and parts of it in german as well - so my mum could understand as well...
The spectators were amazed, longtime applause and standing ovations at the end!!!
Freitag, 15. Mai 2009
I love
my crutches so much.
There is nothing for me to do in the moment. I am absolutely exhausted after having had a shower this morning. I eat my breakfast in the kitchen when mom is not arroung to bring my plate into the living room. What I am able to do is to carry a bottle of water or something unbreakable or something I can put into a bag...
We went grocery shopping this morning - about an hour - an beeing back home I went straight onto the sofa putting my feet up.
So what am I doing all the day?
Sitting on the sofa in front of my laptop or watching TV. Meanwhile - when bored of sitting around - I try to help in the household. Putting my washing away frisking on one leg, dry up the dishes, stuff like that.
I am longing for the moment I can put that crutches away!
There is nothing for me to do in the moment. I am absolutely exhausted after having had a shower this morning. I eat my breakfast in the kitchen when mom is not arroung to bring my plate into the living room. What I am able to do is to carry a bottle of water or something unbreakable or something I can put into a bag...
We went grocery shopping this morning - about an hour - an beeing back home I went straight onto the sofa putting my feet up.
So what am I doing all the day?
Sitting on the sofa in front of my laptop or watching TV. Meanwhile - when bored of sitting around - I try to help in the household. Putting my washing away frisking on one leg, dry up the dishes, stuff like that.
I am longing for the moment I can put that crutches away!
Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2009
'Australia sickness'
I am home and sitting at the laptop - what else could I do in the moment.
Then I am reading the mails Don, Patricia and Charly sent - about Dylan and Gwyneth progresses in eating, walking and communication - I would love to see them again very soon. The photos I get are wonderful and call up all my memories.
I am thinking off all the things I would like to do - seeing the whitsundays, Uluru, a swarm of wildlife budgies, a trip to Nullarbor, attending 'Christmas in July' and so on.
But time will go by and then...
Then I am reading the mails Don, Patricia and Charly sent - about Dylan and Gwyneth progresses in eating, walking and communication - I would love to see them again very soon. The photos I get are wonderful and call up all my memories.
I am thinking off all the things I would like to do - seeing the whitsundays, Uluru, a swarm of wildlife budgies, a trip to Nullarbor, attending 'Christmas in July' and so on.
But time will go by and then...
Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009
... being in hospital
I have worked and walked with the painful foot quite some time but last friday it all got to an end!
I had to get in touch on the ward at 7am and was showed my room, which I shared with two elderly ladies. After having unpacked I did change my clothes against those wonderful and most dressful op gowns... I was told to take the medicine (a painkiller and a tranqualizer) and then to stay in bed. The time went by - minute by minute and hour by hour. At least I didn't care about the 'prohibition' of getting up once more - I needed to go to the toilet. So I stood up 4 or 5 times, finished reading the first book, got a headache (because I mustn't drink a little drop for more than 14 hours by then) and was more than bored...
Round 2pm I finally was conveyed to the surgery. The anaethesist was kind and not soon after starting the drugs, I lost control of my eyes and was gone!
An hour later nearly everything was fine - I woke up again, got lots of painkiller and was allowed to drink again. What I still cannot understand is the surgeon telling me about the op right when I am waking up and not quite with my mind again. But anyway - I remember being told everything went fine and they removed the small fragment and I wouldn' be allowed to walk without crouches for 6 weeks.
I coldn't really stay awake and my bloodstream wasn't the best; I got hot and nausea and was feeling just tired. After round 90 minutes I was brought back into my room and was cared for.
Towards evening I was feeling a little better bt still very tired and so I was quite happy about mom leaving me and the both ladies beeing asleep.
Saturday was a much better day. The ladies and I did chat a little; but I have to tell you the one (the older one) was seemingly dead. I called her 'the spine' as she laid in hospital with pains in her backbones. The younger one (only 75 ) I did called the TEP - she got a new knee! Her was it I did speak with mostly as the spine did sleep nearly all the time.
Scince friday afternoon (my mom did walk into my cousin on accident)the whole family did know me being in hospital; exactly what I wanted to prevent. So during the day I got phonecalls, my mom and my cousin visited with the kids and I got the needle.
On the other hand it was nice as well, but as I would be in hospital only for a short time I thought I could went in without anybody noticing.
My days in hospital were structured:
- Waked up round 6h30am from a nurse giving you your daily pills
- 7h30am round was made by a doctor
- between 8am and 8h30am breakfast
- breakfast was cleared up and the TEP and I got an icepack
- between 9h30 and 10h30 the PT came
- icepacks were cleared up
- 11h45 lunch was brought
- an hour later the tablets were cleared away
- 2pm the knee and I got a 'hard liquor' - some liquid painkiller and again an icepack
- 2h30 afternoon tea was served
- 4pm Ice was packed away and we three got Heparin injections
- 5h30 dinner
- 6h30 cleaning up the tablets again
- 7pm icepack once more
- 10pm last hard liquor for the day
The TV program is bad in the moment so I mostly read - round 750 pages per day. Then I had 2 games and some crossword puzzles with me. When being to nerveous (you may remember I can't sit still for a long time) I went outside on the corridor for 5 minutes and was happy about falling onto my bed again afterwards!
The first nights I couldn't find any sleep:
a soft bed that was very noisy - and mine wasn't the only noisy one, sqeaking doors and room mates who had to go up several times a night. Unfurtunat the rooms light switch and the bathrooms one were put next to each other - I noticed a few times during the night that the spine couldn't remember which is which!
When the knee came back from the toilet, the spine got up from her bad and vice versa. As a last resort both of them do snor! The knee lumberred the whole rainforst in one night!!!!!
In such a structured day the meals are the variation. Breakfast was fine as I ordered a piece of bread, marmelade and cheese; dinner was fine as well because I got a huge salad every night. The one problem was lunchtime:
I hate potatoes and especially mash which is served in hospital - mash is like cement, so I wouldn't even try this. The meat did die for two or three times at least - so hard and untasty. The veggies looked like veggies but tasted like nothing. The soup was coloured but you couldn't make out which kind of soup it should be. So lunch was a big disappointment all the days. But when you do nothing during the day apart from standing up a few times to stretch your legs and going to the toilet you aren't hungry very much (or I am not).
So, I am not allowed to put weight on my foot for two weeks and then I have to walk with 30kg weight on the left foot for 4 weeks. That means I have sick-leave form work for round 2 months.
As summer is coming that is not such a bad thing - BUT
- I can't walk as much and fast as I like to
- I can't carry things around
- my foot is still sore
Damn it! Anyway - my pain will wear off soon (I hope) and I will walk as much as I can and otherwise just enjoy my time in the garden!!!
Even with my np3 player put in both ears I couln't overhear her snorring - so I was really amazed when sleeping through this last night in hospital.
I had to get in touch on the ward at 7am and was showed my room, which I shared with two elderly ladies. After having unpacked I did change my clothes against those wonderful and most dressful op gowns... I was told to take the medicine (a painkiller and a tranqualizer) and then to stay in bed. The time went by - minute by minute and hour by hour. At least I didn't care about the 'prohibition' of getting up once more - I needed to go to the toilet. So I stood up 4 or 5 times, finished reading the first book, got a headache (because I mustn't drink a little drop for more than 14 hours by then) and was more than bored...
Round 2pm I finally was conveyed to the surgery. The anaethesist was kind and not soon after starting the drugs, I lost control of my eyes and was gone!
An hour later nearly everything was fine - I woke up again, got lots of painkiller and was allowed to drink again. What I still cannot understand is the surgeon telling me about the op right when I am waking up and not quite with my mind again. But anyway - I remember being told everything went fine and they removed the small fragment and I wouldn' be allowed to walk without crouches for 6 weeks.
I coldn't really stay awake and my bloodstream wasn't the best; I got hot and nausea and was feeling just tired. After round 90 minutes I was brought back into my room and was cared for.
Towards evening I was feeling a little better bt still very tired and so I was quite happy about mom leaving me and the both ladies beeing asleep.
Saturday was a much better day. The ladies and I did chat a little; but I have to tell you the one (the older one) was seemingly dead. I called her 'the spine' as she laid in hospital with pains in her backbones. The younger one (only 75 ) I did called the TEP - she got a new knee! Her was it I did speak with mostly as the spine did sleep nearly all the time.
Scince friday afternoon (my mom did walk into my cousin on accident)the whole family did know me being in hospital; exactly what I wanted to prevent. So during the day I got phonecalls, my mom and my cousin visited with the kids and I got the needle.
On the other hand it was nice as well, but as I would be in hospital only for a short time I thought I could went in without anybody noticing.
My days in hospital were structured:
- Waked up round 6h30am from a nurse giving you your daily pills
- 7h30am round was made by a doctor
- between 8am and 8h30am breakfast
- breakfast was cleared up and the TEP and I got an icepack
- between 9h30 and 10h30 the PT came
- icepacks were cleared up
- 11h45 lunch was brought
- an hour later the tablets were cleared away
- 2pm the knee and I got a 'hard liquor' - some liquid painkiller and again an icepack
- 2h30 afternoon tea was served
- 4pm Ice was packed away and we three got Heparin injections
- 5h30 dinner
- 6h30 cleaning up the tablets again
- 7pm icepack once more
- 10pm last hard liquor for the day
The TV program is bad in the moment so I mostly read - round 750 pages per day. Then I had 2 games and some crossword puzzles with me. When being to nerveous (you may remember I can't sit still for a long time) I went outside on the corridor for 5 minutes and was happy about falling onto my bed again afterwards!
The first nights I couldn't find any sleep:
a soft bed that was very noisy - and mine wasn't the only noisy one, sqeaking doors and room mates who had to go up several times a night. Unfurtunat the rooms light switch and the bathrooms one were put next to each other - I noticed a few times during the night that the spine couldn't remember which is which!
When the knee came back from the toilet, the spine got up from her bad and vice versa. As a last resort both of them do snor! The knee lumberred the whole rainforst in one night!!!!!
In such a structured day the meals are the variation. Breakfast was fine as I ordered a piece of bread, marmelade and cheese; dinner was fine as well because I got a huge salad every night. The one problem was lunchtime:
I hate potatoes and especially mash which is served in hospital - mash is like cement, so I wouldn't even try this. The meat did die for two or three times at least - so hard and untasty. The veggies looked like veggies but tasted like nothing. The soup was coloured but you couldn't make out which kind of soup it should be. So lunch was a big disappointment all the days. But when you do nothing during the day apart from standing up a few times to stretch your legs and going to the toilet you aren't hungry very much (or I am not).
So, I am not allowed to put weight on my foot for two weeks and then I have to walk with 30kg weight on the left foot for 4 weeks. That means I have sick-leave form work for round 2 months.
As summer is coming that is not such a bad thing - BUT
- I can't walk as much and fast as I like to
- I can't carry things around
- my foot is still sore
Damn it! Anyway - my pain will wear off soon (I hope) and I will walk as much as I can and otherwise just enjoy my time in the garden!!!
Even with my np3 player put in both ears I couln't overhear her snorring - so I was really amazed when sleeping through this last night in hospital.
Freitag, 1. Mai 2009
May Day
is occuring on May 1st and is synonymous with 'International Workers Day' or 'Labour Day', which celebrates the social and economic achievements of the labour movement.
In acient times known as 'Walpurgis Night' men celebrated the beginning of the warmer season. Today both are combiened:
Usually there are lots of partys on April, 30th and then there are manifestations and different kinds of events on the 1st.
In my area the 'Ruhr Festivals' start in May and the 1st is the official opening day.
So today there are lots of activities outside - bands, varietee, some manifestations or demonstrations - peacefully ones.
I confess, not having done anything today but watching films and take care of my new budgie. But I savorred the non-working day!
In acient times known as 'Walpurgis Night' men celebrated the beginning of the warmer season. Today both are combiened:
Usually there are lots of partys on April, 30th and then there are manifestations and different kinds of events on the 1st.
In my area the 'Ruhr Festivals' start in May and the 1st is the official opening day.
So today there are lots of activities outside - bands, varietee, some manifestations or demonstrations - peacefully ones.
I confess, not having done anything today but watching films and take care of my new budgie. But I savorred the non-working day!
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