A fight for her life.

Oct 13, 2019

We wanted to see how Ann is doing so we went to the hospital right after breakfast.  When we arrived, she was sleeping soundly and her friend Marilyn had been with her since early this morning.  

Ann had been transported to another hospital nearby during the night, for an ultra sound.  She has a blot clot in her leg and is being administered a heavy blood thinner and the swelling appears to be going down.  Ann’s brothers Robert and James had arrived and we let them be with Ann. She had woken up and wanted to talk to her brothers in private.  Her surgeon had met with Ann this morning and had told her that she had ovarian cancer. There is still more tests to do before they can decide what the next course of action is going to be.

Ann needed to sleep so we left the hospital in search for a Thanksgiving dinner.  We drove a short distance to the Lord Nelson Hotel where they were serving a turkey dinner. We enjoyed the turkey dinner, however, they did not serve pumpkin pie!  As I was talking to Debbie, at one point, I noticed a tiny mouse scurry across the carpet.  I quietly called over the bartender and told him.  He was surprised, as he told me that they had an exterminator in earlier in the week.  To say the least, the Thanksgiving turkey dinner was far from what we expected and what we paid for. (I thnk we paid extra for the mouse!)  We will do another search tomorrow.  

Across the street, work crews were working on the massive crane that had collapsed onto a building.  Hurricane Dorian had blown the crane onto the new building under construction. There are three cranes working on the project.  Because of the inherent danger in its removal, the neighboring business tower has been shut down.  Local businesses are upset about the length of time this clean up work is taking. We walked along Spring Garden Street for a few blocks looking in some of the stores and just enjoying the exercise. 

We returned to the hospital and found Ann awake and in better spirits.  Her leg was not as sore and swollen.  Ann is facing a major fight for her life.  We talked to her for about an hour.  She was getting tired and we said goodnight and left.  We returned to the trailer and I worked on the blog.