[lit-ideas] Re: Secretly ...
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 22:58:42 +0000 (GMT)
--- JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> You people live awfully complicated lives. I put my
> trash in large pails,
> and once a week on Wednesday morning before 7:00
> a.m. drag them down the
> driveway to the curb. On weeks with holidays, I
> drag them on Thursdays instead.
It's like that in this part of Cardiff now -- wheelie
bins and recycling have already invaded some other
parts.
>
> The City used to have a recycling program in which
> your recyclables would be
> picked up from the curb on a given day. They no
> longer do that
There was one here too, some years ago, but it lapsed.
There's more pressure to recycle etc. now.
but there is
> the option to haul all the smelly recyclable refuse
> in your trunk to special
> bins which the city empties periodically.
and here
> Large items like appliances have to be carted to the
> city dump where you pay
> per pound to be permitted to ..... dump them.
That's supposed to be free here -- but I can't cart
them and refuse to pay carriers. The Council will
collect by special arrangement.
> On the other hand, my Mom just finished another
> round of chemo, my step-Dad
> is in the ER because his right arm is a dead-weight,
> shaking uncontrollably.
Ah -- bad news indeed. I'm just over a dead-weight
legs scare (not quite over, but my GP, who's very
good, is I'm sure right to say it's a muscular
problem, and the symptoms since then support that) but
your stepfather's thing is worse.
> And I'm writing about garbage. Literally. Why,
> one might ask? Well,
> because since I've had the flu for a week and am
> still not getting along well with
> food, I don't want to expose my immune-hampered
> Mother to yet another
> illness.
I agree -- sorry about the flu.
And they tell me after an EKG and CAT
> scan they will send Dad home. I
> personally think that's crazy. They tell Mom they
> think he had a TIA (a "mini"
> stroke) which from everything I've read/heard is a
> prelude to a Real Stroke.
> But they apparently aren't admitting him (pending
> CAT scan results). Yeah,
> he has insurance.
It isn't necessarily a prelude to a Real Stroke,
Julie. But he should receive treatment and be checked
on particularly for the first month afterwards.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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