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VISITING THE INFIRM

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  As most of you know, during the summer of 2004 my eldest daughter was involved in a serious boating accident at Lake Tahoe resulting in traumatic brain injury.  She was whisked off the beach by helicopter and flown to a hospital in Reno where she stayed for two months before being transferred to a hospital in Folsom for a month, and finally to one in San Jose specializing in head injury rehabilitation for the next 2 ½ months where she underwent intense recovery therapy learning how to eat, walk, talk, read, write, and etc. all over again from square one.  I know I’ve shared this story before, but it fits this week’s prompt, so I’m telling it again – maybe with a few different pictures. The early days when she was in a full coma in the hospital in Reno.  Even in a coma, the nurses were so good – coming in every couple of hours to gently move her into different positions. She was still in a coma in this picture when her younger sister, & older brother & sis-i...
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'NO ENTRY" & OTHER UNHELPFUL SIGNS

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  There’s absolutely no entry here including trying to go back the way you came! But the sign says . . .  Er . . .  Um . . . Eh? So what now? Okay, I give up! At least somebody had a sense of humor. Exactly! ¯ First yau put your car in 2 nd gear. And roll up all your windows while you’re drivin’ here. You look to the left and you look to the right And then you twist around and twist around with all of your might. ¯ Getting to the Penbina Hwy looks like fun. It looks like those going left will have a more interesting time than the rest of us. Why I don’t drive on freeways! If you're headed for Reno, no sweat.  If you need to get to the other places shown, it’s a whole other ballgame and good luck with that! How much time would I have to absorb this information and choose which way I need to go? Signs in the city are just as confusing. So “ALL OTHER TIMES” would be from 9:30 pm to 6:30 am – right?  Or would that be left? Apparently you can’t find or do any...
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STREET BOXES & ODD PLACES TO SIT

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  Defying gravity Over hill & dale I would have painted this one as an underwater scene with colorful fish swimming round. Illusionary More illusion I think this is my favorite. J As for sitting in odd places, that's me atop a bollard on a ferryboat with my Grandma B. and Aunt Frances in 1942 And my Mon sitting on a garbage can at Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe having just finished our picnic lunch in the snow during the winter of 1967 :-> La Nightingail
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