A VERY CLOSE CALL FOR KELLY LAST NIGHT AND SHE IS BACK IN LONDON'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

 4:33 IN THE MORNING

It was 4:03 a.m. when faintly, I heard my name being called.  It was Kelly in the washroom and she had just thrown up a lot of blood again.  Upon entering the washroom, her feeble words to me were, 'call an ambulance.  Prior to this she had had a sleepless night feeling sick with chest pains and leg cramps.  The ambulance was here 15 minutes later.  When they took her blood pressure I said to the lady paramedic that Kelly's blood pressure two days ago at the Goderich Hospital was 83 over 52.  The lady said, 'It's lower than that now'.  The ambulance, with Kelly in it, speedily headed for the Goderich Hospital.  It was 4:45 a.m. and my day was underway.......I called the Goderich Hospital at 9 this morning and she had already been transported to London's University Hospital.  Called University Hospital at 10:50 and they said she had just got there and was stable.  At 11:30 the phone rang and I recognized Kelly's cell phone number, but nobody on the other end.  I hung up and twenty seconds later it rang again but nobody there.  Then my cell phone rang but nobody there.  I quickly called Kelly's cell phone and a weak little voice answered in barely a whisper.  Kelly was in the Emergency room at University Hospital.  And, this was what she was able to tell me....After arriving at Emergency at Goderich's Hospital she threw up more blood and was immediately given 4 units of blood. (blood transfusion)  Her hemoglobin number had dropped to an alarming life threatening 47.  Normal is 120.  In other words, she was in critical condition.  She said Ornge Air Ambulance was contacted by the Goderich Hospital to fly her to London but Ornge Ambulance said it was too foggy for the helicopter to fly.  She doesn't remember much about the ground ambulance taking her to London this morning but she said when she arrived, there was a trauma team waiting for her.  I asked her what they did and she said she couldn't remember much.  Keep in mind as I'm talking to her that I can tell she is in a mild fog talking slowly and haltingly.  They gave her stronger morphine for the excruciating pain in her back caused by the compression fractures in her spine.  As we were talking she said she could hear people in the trauma unit discussing whether to send her to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) or the eighth GI floor where she usually goes.  She said this was the worst sick time she has ever been in her life.  This was a very close call for Kelly.  She had a close call one other time last summer when ICU was also involved.

 A LOCAL FARMER TRANSPORTING WHAT I THINK MIGHT BE WATER TO A HERD OF SHEEP IN A NEARBY FIELD

I'VE NOTICED BEFORE HOW THIS DOG LOVES TO RACE ALONGSIDE THE FARMER'S ATV BETWEEN THE FARMERS TWO FARMS

 AND NOTICE WHO'S IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT....PHOTOS AREN'T THE BEST BECAUSE I TOOK THEM THROUGH MY DRIVER'S SIDE MIRROR AS THEY WERE COMING UP BEHIND ME

A short toot for Pheebs and I into Bayfield and back this morning.  Early this afternoon I got a hankerin for a Sub so I slipped into Bayfield and came home with a big 12" Canuck something or other.  Had all the fixins on it too.  Pheebs and I demolished it in about a minute.  It would have been a good weather day for getting a few things done outside but I couldn't seem to find even one ounce of energy anywhere.

 HEY, SOMEBODY TOOK A BITE OUT OF OUR SUB.....OKAY OKAY SO IT WAS ME

 PHEEBS IS TOTALLY FOCUSED ON HER SNACK AND YES, I MADE SURE THERE WERE NO ONIONS IN IT

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It was 4:50 this afternoon when I next heard from Kelly.  She was still in Emergency but her voice was clearer and stronger.  She said they have been having a lot of trouble getting blood out of her and her arms are so sore.  She hadn't had anything to eat because they were hoping to do an Endoscopy on her sometime this afternoon..........    Kelly called tonight at 8 with an update.  She has been moved to the 8th floor and they have her in a private room this time  Finally!!  There is still a 'No Visitors' restriction due to the Covid outbreak last week.  Her endoscopy is scheduled for in the morning.  One of the medical problems they are having with Kelly at the moment is that they can't get any blood out of her to check her hemoglobin level, etc.  A doctor even tried to put a picc line in her neck and that didn't work either but said they will try again in the morning.  Kelly still retains her positive attitude and her spirits are good despite all that has happened.  At the time of posting this tonight, it has been raining steadily for the past three hours..........

 EVER WONDERED WHAT A MODERN-DAY SEPTIC TANK LOOKS LIKE??  WELL, WONDER NO MORE

THE HOLE IN THE GROUND IS DONE SO THE TANK JUST NEEDS A COUPLE DOZEN BIG GUYS TO PUSH IT OVER AND INTO THE HOLE

Al's Music Box:)) Big Yellow Taxi is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon. It only reached No. 67 in the US in 1970, but was later a bigger hit there for her in a live version released in 1974, which peaked at No. 24.  In 1996, speaking to journalist Robert Hilburn, Mitchell said this about writing the song:  I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart .... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.  The song is known for its environmental concern – "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" and "Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now" – and sentimental sound. The line "They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum / And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em" refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered.  In the song's final verse, the political gives way to the personal. Mitchell recounts the departure of her "old man" in the eponymous "big yellow taxi", which may refer to the old Metro Toronto Police patrol cars, which until 1986 were painted yellow.  In many covers the departed one may be interpreted as variously a boyfriend, a husband or a father. The literal interpretation is that he is walking out on the singer by taking a taxi; otherwise it is assumed he is being taken away by the authorities.  Mitchell's original recording was first released as a single and then, as stated above, included on her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon. A later live version was released in 1974 on Miles of Aisles and reached No. 24 on the U.S. charts. Billboard regarded the live version as "more full of life" than any of the singles Mitchell released in a long time.  Cash Box called the live version "a great rendition of this excellent lyrical song."  In 1995, to coincide with the song's inclusion in the American sitcom /Friends, the song was re-released as a maxi-single with new remixes in a variety of styles. The song still receives significant airplay in Canada; in 2005, it was voted No. 9 on CBC's list of the top 50 essential Canadian tracks.  In 2007, Joni Mitchell released the album Shine, which includes a newly recorded, rearranged version of the song.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A wife woke in the middle of the night to find her husband missing from bed. She got out of bed and checked around the house. She heard sobbing from the basement. After turning on the light and descending the stairs, she found he husband curled up in the corner, of the basement,... crying like a baby. "Honey, what's wrong?", she asked, worried about what could hurt him so much. "Remember, 20 years ago, I got you pregnant and your father threatened me to either marry you or to go to jail?"  "Yes, of course," she replied.  "Well, I would have been released from jail this afternoon!"

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- I make Apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow.

Wife: 'What are you doing?'
Husband: Nothing.
Wife: 'Nothing...? You've been reading our marriage certificate for an hour.'
Husband: 'I was looking for the expiration date.

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While the family was sitting around the dinner table, Jennifer, 5, turned to her brother Andy, 3, and pointed to her dad. "That's not your real father," she said, startling the whole family.  "Yes, he is!" Andy replied.  "No, he's not," Jennifer insisted. "God is your heavenly father."
Then pointing at her dad, she said, "That's your homely father!"

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