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Thanks Gerry! It does get more familiar but it never gets easier! I’m in the tiny waiting room, they’ll get me after they have him prepped and I’ll sit with him until they take him in for surgery. It’s a 60 min procedure whereas the drain emplacement was 10 mins, that with cataract lens emplacement was 15 mins. We’re so blessed that they can do such things. Prayers for Maurice for perfect timing. No word on my sister-in-law. We brought funeral clothes with us in case we had to go to services Thursday morning… not looking likely. later, m—

Happy birthday Charlene 🎂 Blessing for your procedure Elizabeth👁️ Vanessa, please go slowly and gently. 💤Rest.

🎂🎂🎂 Happy celebrations today @marshhawk Annie! Love you bunches! Thank you Sandi! I opened todays Daily then skipped ahead, will read in the waiting room while DH is in surgery. He’s better I think today, yesterday some of it was weighing in him. He’s being very brave! He’s always been phobic about his eyes! At least we’ve had the blessing of the successful surgery for the first one! It’s a really strange surgery and healing progression but we keep moving forward! Thanks all! Oh, time rescheduled to 11:45, no bets. Later, Maureen

We’re in Maryland at hotel across the street from the eye surgery center. Yea! No problems really just the usual that makes a 4-hr trip take 5 hrs. The front desk charged the credit card $225 above the confirmed price, the $200 deposit and the $40 parking fee…. guy says check back tomorrow…. like I have nothing better to do tomorrow. Hospital changed time for surgery to 11:45, at least I’ll get breakfast! We’re here and I’m very grateful! Terri, you are stronger than you realize, doing what’s very best for you and Jim! Give yourself a big hug, we’re all with you. Annie, thanks for your trust to share your angst. Two things to have to do: breathe in, breathe out! Again! 🤗. We all want Chuck to feel better. Roy, hope your consult was encouraging. Gerry, hugs to you too and also hoping for a new path for Maurice soon! I confused Mykonos with Santorini this morning. Guess I’m not at my best. Thanks for understanding. I’ll update you all, thanks for your support! Maureen

🙏 for Vanessa May it be Amazing! Hugs to Graham and @Angelcat1 Good luck to Roy 🎂 Sue 🛳️ Bon Voyage Dixie Good Passover ti all celebrating! 🙏 for the Hostages 🌎 Happy Earth Day! Love Dr S quote❤️ Love the pictures from @aliaschief. And Mykonos! We visited Akrotiri ther and tge archeology museum, very impressive! I should have taken a pic of the mules as we walked down the cliff path. That was memorable! No news from my family about Sister-in-law still lingering. Sigh. Blessing all, I’ll update later. Thanks for your support. Maureen

Still cool in north Jersey, mid 30s peaking into low 50s, cloudy and breezy. I think we’ll make a quick run to get some snack food for the week’s travels. Maybe one last small laundry load today then pack everything to be ready for tomorrow's late morning departure. There’s to be a truck here at 10:00 tomorrow to pick up shredding, I hope it’s on time, we generated a bunch of paper to be shredded between taxes and the move… but nothing like when we moved from NM where we burned out our own shredder then took 30 lbs to UPS and paid them to finish it up! Terry, splendid that Tana ate with the family! What a lift for you all! Have a grand time together! 💞 Happy Golden Anniversary Brenda @bennybear and DH 🎉 Milestone of Love well lived! 🎂 Happy Birthday Tony @sailingdutchy 🥳 🛳️ Bon Voyage @kazu Jacqui and @VMax1700 🍾 May your cruise be Grand! I love chocolate covered nuts! Too much so! Kindergarten was a giant leap forward into new worlds! One part was very upsetting to me - girls were not allowed to play in the block corner! Maybe that propelled me in a direction for life to “show them” what girls can do! Blessings to all in need. Praying for Amazing for Vanessa! and Maurice, Tana, Jim, Elizabeth, Annie, Chuck, Amber… all in acute situations, may you have a shift soon to better paths ! Thanks all for being here with your caring support! Maureen

Very unsettled weather expected today in north Jersey, 40s to 60s, maybe a shower, high winds! I need to look at my packing list and start organizing things to be packed tomorrow. We’ll bring food for car lunch snacks and hotel room suppers so we don’t have to venture out. We’ve collected pizza slices and quesadillas for suppers. I’ll need breakfast items with me for Tuesday to eat while DH is in surgery, there isn’t even water in the waiting room but there is a coffee bar in the lobby. We’ll leave home Monday late morning, two nights in the very nice Embassy Suites across from the medical complex; then we hope to have Wednesday night at a friend’s house… that will allow me to attend my old church group event that night, give us a good visit with my friend in our previous community and drive home Thursday morning at a time to miss most of the rushhour traffic. That’s the plan, we’ll see what really happens. Blessings to all in need of healing, comfort or hope. Toasts to those celebrating! Smooth travels to all away! Thanks all for being here. Hugs to you! I hope Sarah is perking up! Good news Brenda! Better weather Denise! Praying for Amazing… Tana, Vanessa, Maurice, Jane, Jacqui, Roy, Melissa, Pennie, Jim, Chuck… Enjoy something special today! Maureen

Wow, thanks Annie. I hadn’t thought of that. Sounds like you had a mess! Real stuff in life is hard enough! I appreciate you sharing about this and hope you have no more of these bogus problems. m—

@luvteaching Karen, nice to hear t such a tough day went well. Never easy and new losses trigger previous ones. You’re allowed to have tears! Jacqui, we’re all on your side! Safe travels! Brenda, great to hear you had a good report! Yay! 👏 Vanessa, the insurance confirmation is a load off! Hoping you can rest tonight. No news here…. DH missed a call today that popped up as Johns-Hopkins Breast Imaging! I never used JH for mammograms so we’re confused. His eye surgery folks have a different number. No message left… I’m just hoping everything is on track as planned. That’s all we can do. Leaving Monday late morning, hotel check-isn’t till 4pm. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. I should start arranging our packing! Good night all💤

44F now but mostly 50s today, nicer than yesterday. We did walk yesterday but not far, it was not nice out. The flowers on campus are fun and the trees are adding a lot of color. No news on sister in law. It’s whatever time she needs to close out. We wait. Thank you for your support. I’m making lists for our trip to Maryland Monday for early surgery Tuesday👍. Thinking of Vanessa too with her surgery Monday. Praying for Amazing! SO happy @kazuJacqui is cleared for travel. Blessings dear one that it’s all smooth and healing! Body mind and spirit. Wonderful that the movers served @Mr. Boston well. Onward to new horizons. Thank you Sandi for leading us into a new day! And Roy, Graham, Vanessa, Ann, Dixie and Debbie. And each of you for sharing here. May the Blessings abound! And spread through the world. Maureen Flower beds on our on-campus walk. A reminder to be who you are! PS Yesterday I was talking about my visits to The Rocks in Sydney, not the Ticks! ugh.

🙃 Happy for you Jacqui! 🎉 Some deep breaths and a good night! 💤

Late today… 40s here! Dismal. No word on brothers wife. 🌈 Jacqui yay! Live Life! 🛳️ 🎂🎂🎂 Martha, Jim. Lisa 👍Amber! 👍 on insurance Pennie Costco has a delicious spinach artichoke dip, high calories! But Yum. Loved Sydney. Spent a full week. Went to The Ticks twice, fantastic interactive museum there. Bought a boomerang 🪃, love it. NZ had to review it for safety as I was importing wood! Attended a symphony and had a tour of the Opera House on DH’s birthday! Wonderful pictures! Thank so much. Nice to have my happy memories jogged. Otherwise we’re all on edge, just waiting.. awful feeling. We’ve been walking more. Good distraction. Hip is not loving it but managing ok. ❤️ you all. Thanks. Maureen

Supposed to rain this afternoon so we will walk cross-campus to our 12:00 lunch meeting then maybe take the campus bus back. My brother had a 68 Mustang. I got several long trips in it, one cross country out to the four corners when I was 14. His daughter is on her 3rd Mustang. These are the DB and DN struggling through my DSIL’s dying days. Waiting. Wonderful pix of Taomina. One of the first group posted looks like it captured old Regal Princess, our second cruise ship. We had a grand tour there from Massdam’s call in Messina on the Atlantic Adventurer which we jumped onto mid-way, then did the full round-trip on Veendam. Taormina has so many layers of history from all the peoples who conquered it. Funny recent encounter: Our newest financial advisor whom we met with a few weeks ago said she was married in Taormina a few years ago, where her grandparents live. What a setting! @kochleffel Thanks Paul for the canal info. We visited Erie Canal last year and houseboated on Ridou canal from Lake Ontario Kingston not long shot, amazing histories. Hope you are feeling better albeit slowly. Oh no Jacqui! Just Oh NO! 😱 Well you know the options better than most, unfortunately. I’m praying for Amazing! Extra hugs to you. Annie, I hope you heal quickly! And the new job option works out. Elizabeth, I barely tolerate MRIs when I must, sorry you must do two in a day. I hope they show what is needed. I think my grandparents from Italy bypassed Ellis Island and went through immigration on Manhattan. Maybe my Irish grandmother too before they were processing immigrants there. But someone in the Italian side bought a brick which I’ve seen. 🤷🏼‍♀️. Blessings to all the Care list, all of you and everyone’s needs near and far. Thanks for keeping my family in your hearts and prayers during these most difficult days for us. Cheers to Canada! You got a constitution before England! Loving the canal transit pix! Smooth travels to all away. Maureen.

Annie, try icing your ankle and wherever your leg hurts. Elevate the ankle. Rest it!

Hope you got through today well enough to tackle tomorrow! We tried moving “enough” stuff out of our condo for the realtor to show it but that didn’t pan out. We slipped showing it 2weeks until we were out. We have good memories of Ogunquit! Stayed at the Cliff House in 1994. Had a fabulous lobster pizza from room service because they wouldn’t allow DH in the dining room in sneakers 😳. Now that we’re “back east” we considered revisiting Cliff House but it is way too expensive now. Hoping you can find what you’re looking for soon. Keep us posted! m— Thanks for the Whitehorse pictures and from the train. I was in Whitehorse in 1984 via road trip. I’ll bet it’s changed!🤣 Yukon is gorgeous! I lost all the photos to ex… life hirs in and I’ve been fortunate to make more memories than I ever imagined. Thanks for your kind encouragement Vanessa, Debbie, Lenda. I may have put more effort into the lodging list than anticipated but it kept me busy. I added distances and drive times from each hotel to the funeral home to help them understand what they’re getting themselves into. Cousins all come from north, DB from NC. We’ll see who can make it. I talked to niece, she is exhausted and worried about her dad. We wait. Had call about eye surgery- drew first surgery slot, 7:30! Arrival time 6:30! We’ll take it! m—