Dec. 25, 2022
I am going crazy with this new windows 11. It
has buggered up my whole system, addresses and all. And all the blog entries
sins June 14. I had a blog for today and it just disappeared, along with lots of
others. I hope my guru, Fr. Proud, an find them. They must be around somewhere.
Have a blessed Christmas season and a hope-full 2023.
Dec, 16, 2022
I have had 3 sessions with the physiotherapist,
KIARA, each time giving me another exercise to do twice a day, before she comes
back next time,,,,,,//Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8qm to 9 . Wonder of wonders, the
bowels have started to move again and some of the muscle in the left leg is
coming back.
I
don’t know how many times I have started my Christmas letter and it just seems
to disappear and I can’t find it. So here
we go again. Let me put this in the blog before it gets lost too. Blessings on
you all for your love Nd support.
Good news.
The new diet is working. I have had 2 BMs in the last 2 weeks. Hooray.
We are making progress. My niece also sent some money, so I made an appointment
with a physiotherapist to make a home visit for a reasonable charge, It seems
that the muscle in my left leg is disappearing because it gets no exercise. I
have to find some exercises to get it back again. I hope it is possible. I also
have to start my dear everyone Christmas letter, It all sounds so normal but I
can hardly walk now and everything has to be carefully preplanned. Lots of love
to you all and keep the prayers coming.
Cas
DEC. 2, 2022
Dr. Govender, in my meeting with him on Tuesday
the 29th, said I am malnourished and going down ….porridge in the
morning and soup afternoon and evening
had me starving he said and the body was pulling energy to exist from the
muscles. ( half the calf muscles are already gone, ) and he prescribed for me a
whole new diet, something that is impossible at mariannhill 1. Muesli every day 2. 3 fruits every day. 3. Drink 3 raw eggs a day (full of the
protein I need) 4. Lots of Greek salad
5. 2 litres of water every day,
that , hopefully will get me up and back to normal. He himself ordered
some special protein drink cartons, and is trying to get me into a program
where I CAN GET HOSPITAL ATTENTION OR A WEEK, WHERE THEY WILL GIVE ME A DRIP WITH ALL THE NUTRIENTS NY BODY NEEDS,
He strongly hinted that I was on the way out. Wow. He scared me, but also
impressed me with his TLC, his PA, Melissa, is also, searching for ways to get
free care. Lots of people are trying their best for me. I am really touched,
moved, by their concern and real efforts to help somehow.
I
want to apologize too for 2 things. 1.
I stole, borrowed money for this new diet fom the fund for the poor, I hope
that the donors will forgive me, 2. I
received so many birthday wishes and blessings that I am unable to answer each
and every one. I just say thank you to you all, and God bless you for you love
and concern and friendship. I thanked God for my 87 full years of beautiful
people (all of you), and look forward to more beautiful people in my 88th
yr,
Again, God bless you all and man many thanks for your love. Cas
Nov, 27, 2022
It is a long story. I Wanted able to have a bm
for a long time till ai finally asked a friend to admit me to st. Marys hosp.
here at Mariannhill to have a professional give me an enema ( we tried many things
at home with practically no results. I had three strong enemas and again, no
results, finally was released to go to a doctor at another private hospital who
told me to take 4 sachets of picoprep (the stuff they ask you to take to flush
the system. Well, the system was flushed and the colonoscopy was a great
success….clean, clean, clen like a new born baby, even some technicolour pictures
of my innards. That was Thursday the 17th nov.
Till now , no movement….back to square one. St. marys let me out on passout to get the report for the colonoscopy, which I did and I have an appointment with the doctor who did the job to see where we can go from here. (I hope there is a way forward without another colonoscopy, which I can’t afford). I will see him on Tuesday, Nov. 29. Then back to st. Marys for follow up. A problem is that we are mixing two unmixable systems….private and public hospitals …two different systems. Private, good but way out of our budget, and public, good but slow and free or very low cost. It was maddening and frustrating in st. Marys…no internet…no communication with the outside world for almost 2 weeks. I will only know on Tuesday if there is a way forward and what it might be. Keep the prayers coming.
I will let you all know what is and has
been happening if I have the energy. I haven’t had solid foo, with a few
exceptions, for over 2 weeks now. Only soup and mealie porridge, lots and lots
of water, some clear apple juice and black coffee or tea to drink. I lost lots
of weight I weigh 51 kg (about 113 lbs.) In 2018 my normal weight was
150 lbs, or 70 kg. If anybody of you wants to lose weight, I have the secret. I
will keep you posted when I get a chance, LOL and more, Cas
Oct. 25, 2022
I don’t knowhow time can go so fast. I wanted
to say for the whole week that a serious dent was made in our family when my uncle
cas (Casey) passed away just over a week ago. He ws the last of the 14 kid in
the Chmielewski family (Aunt Rose was the second last). It is hard to say who
was my favorite undle because there was not a bad one in the bunch, but maybe because
he was closest to me in age (of the 14) but I thin he was my favourite, that’s
why I took his name for my religious name. I think his kids and all us cousins
loved him a lot. He was just a good man. He was 96 when he died and I am 87,
just 9 yrs. difference. I admired him , among other reasons because he built
his own house, from digging the basement to doing the plumbing and electricity
along with the usual help from the local guys giving a hand…You know, put a cas
of beer out and a few snacks on Saturday and watch the house go up. That was
the spirit In those days….all the neighbors pitched in and helped each other.
Maybe it still works that way but it is long since I have been in the States to
notice. It still happens in the villages here in Africa but too many are becoming
westernized here too and people are getting more individualistic. But I sad
event sorry that it took me so long to
mention this sad event in our family history. To make it more totally relevant
for non-family members, he was one of my many great mentors. I wanted to be
like him. Let me put this in my blog before I forget for another two weeks. I
forget lots of things but I thank God that I still remember my name, and it is
not just….hey you. Ha. Lots of love to
you all till next time the sprit moves.
Oct. 17, 2022
Let me just throw this little bit in while it
is fresh in my mind.
You know , I said after a few days after the
failure of our hope at Luthuli, that I was down, down, down, down, just a bit above depression. However, after a
few days I knew that it was not the end of the story. I don’t Have clue what the end of the story will be, (maybe
it is my faith speaking now) and God being the jokester that s/he is , something totally unexpected is going to pop
up and God will have the last laugh.
