Thursday
Dear Elsie
Today was the day that Grandpa spent the day in the ‘sick bay’! In fact last night he moved upstairs to Julian’s floor because it’s free at the moment and Julian only arrives next week, so today I am calling it the sick bay. Grandpa is no worse, but has a head cold of note. His temperature hasn’t been too high and his oxygen levels are fine. If he hadn’t done a Covid test, I would have said it was a very bad cold. I’m hoping Grandpa will be feeling a bit better tomorrow because I’m coming to see you, my Elsie! Someone is turning 6 next week and there is a party to be had!
Mike is very little trouble when he’s sick. I did go up and down a number of times to check on him and visit him and will go up again when I’ve wrapped up here.
One of the strangest adjustments since returning from our holiday is getting used to the very early sunsets. This is 6.17pm.
When we were on the ship we went for dinner at 7.30pm. By the time we had finished there, walked around a bit and seen some of the ship sights, it was close to 10pm. In some places the sun was only just setting. When we were at our most northern point, Mike woke in the early hours and to his surprise the last glow of sunlight was visible in the distant horizon. To have it almost dark by 6.30pm now is a big change for us. I love autumn. I enjoy winter too.
Today is 16th May and it is one year ago today that Mike’s sister passed away. It’s also a year ago today that David started triple therapy. While it didn’t work, it gave him some hope at the time. Recently, he has seen a positive improvement. Today, we went across for me to pick up Mike’s car. I asked him to wait to make sure I could get into the garage and out with the car before leaving. Not only did he wait, he got out of the car and closed the garage door after I reversed out. Six months ago he would never have done that. We are keeping him away from Mike for obvious reasons.
Psalm 112:4
Even in darkness light dawns for the upright
It’s not about now – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Gran xx 🙂