Maritime Holiday

The wedding was a great highlight on our trip. It was fantastic to enjoy the day with Christie and Mike, and also Ed, Linda, Val and Beckie.

Peggy's Cove was one of the many highlights. Here the five of us, Louise, Jennifer,
Karla, Tim and myself enjoy the ocean and the rugged rock background.
I have so many pictures taken on our trip of the Maritimes, it is almost impossible to know what to post and what to leave out. This fall Louise and I, Jennifer and Tim and Karla toured the Maritimes. I was quite sick so there are parts of it I don't remember but I took a lot of pictures. I remember if being very hot. 35 degrees plus somedays and I remember going to the emergency department of the Charlottetown hospital. But I also remember the good things too. We took in the play Ann of Green Gables and it was excellent. We attended Mike and Christie's wedding on just a beautiful summer's night. The weather couldn't have been better and then of course it was completed with a beautiful Nova Scotia sunset of which I have already posted a picture. I guess I am going to have to get down to work on some Smilebox or something scrapbooks and preserve the memories. I still have our trip to Cuba and our tour of Niagara Falls on memory sticks so need to do something about that. Probably won't be many more trips out east. Jennifer graduates from the University of Ottawa in 2011 with a degree in law. Already she has been hired by a Saskatoon law firm so she is coming home to work. It seems hard to believe that she has been gone almost three years.
Anyway I will post a few of my favourite Maritime pictures and try to do more as time and health permit.

Judging People

If you want to judge people by their worst moments and their biggest mistakes, you won't like or respect many people. But, if you choose to look at them, and see their best qualities and their best moments, you will be much richer in terms of friendships and your attitude toward life. All of us in our lives will need forgiveness at different times and in different ways.

Sunsets

I have always enjoyed sunsets. One of the spectacular aspects of God's creations.
Over the years I have been fortunate enough to catch on film some awesome sunsets in places like Hawaii, the Dominican Republic and other spots.
But for beauty a Nova Scotia sunset is second to none. This picture was taken the night of Mike and Christie's wedding. It was just a beautiful night.

Hard to Believe

I find it hard to believe that I have not posted anything on this site since January 26th. I belong to an international Crohns website for fellow sufferers of this dreadful disease and I have posted quite a bit of my journey's on there.
It has been a difficult summer. I experienced major Crohns attack sometime in May and from there things have just got progressively worse. Numerous trips to the ER ward, sleep deprivation from being unable to sleep at night. Night mares from various medications that they have been trying. We made a trip to the Maritimes for Christie and Mike's wedding. Unfortunately I remember very little about the trip.
Louise, Jennifer, Tim, Karla and myself made the trip. I am so glad I had my camera because I at least have the pictures to look at.(Will try to post some on the site soon). I know Louise and the crew rushed me to hospital in Charlottetown, PEI with my blood pressure over 215 and they did some emergency stuff to bring the pressure down. When I returned home things got progressively worse ending up with about a seven day stay in hospital. I will post more about this experience as I have on my Crohns site. It has been unpleasant to say the least. Wrong medications resulting in anxiety, restlessness and unbelievable nightmares. I can honestly say I now know what "a bad trip" feels like.
I am so thankful for Louise who has stood by me throughout this ordeal and has suffered much not understanding what was going on. Also for Tim who has been here and for Jennifer who has been a constant source of encouragement by telephone. I have been encouraged to write about my experience and especially the experience dealing with the Saskatchewan Health care system. I am also very thankful for Linda and her encouragement by telephone and her encouragement to put my thoughts down on paper as I try to work through them. I must say at this point I do not feel up to that although much could be said especially about the lack of hospital care.
And yet how much better it is to accentuate the positive. God's word says that "all things work together for good for those that love God" and perhaps there in alone there is a meaning for this ordeal. I do not know but do pray that someday it will be revealed to me.