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Handel’s Messiah

2010 has been a difficult year with my father dying of lymphoma this year, and my mother struggling to put together a patchwork of different sources of income so that she needn’t resort to catfood for sustenance. I’ve done my … Continue reading

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One Year Ago Today I Nearly Died

It was one year ago today, July 17th, that I rang for an ambulance to rush me to hospital – specifically Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, where my surgeon is located. Normally, when I go to the ER I take a … Continue reading

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Worried About Momma Bean

Today is Mother’s Day, here in the vastness of Her Majesty’s Colonies .. aka, Canada. As a dutiful Baby Bean I treated my mom, Momma Bean, to a Mother’s Day Brunch. We went to a lovely restaurant and she quite … Continue reading

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General Bean Update

Another month has come and gone and March was quite interesting – to say the least. My paternal unit, one Elder Bean, passed away on March 10th. So now there is only me, Beanie, Lil Bro and Momma Bean left … Continue reading

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Elder Bean is no more

My father, Jaunutis Jonas, died this past Wednesday March 10, 2010. I am devastated by his death, but it wasn’t a surprise for me. As many of my faithful readers know he’s been suffering for quite a while, and had … Continue reading

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Healthcare Guardian? Moi?

I received a phonecall today from a Social Worker at St. Joseph’s Health Centre — the hospital in which my father has been in for nearly 3 weeks. She rang my mother, but the maternal unit’s english is rather poor … Continue reading

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Visit in the ER with the paternal unit

I, as a dutiful child, visited my father in hospital today after work. He’s still in the ER and still being rather cheeky with the nurses. When I showed up there was a PSW (Personal Support Worker) keep an eye … Continue reading

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Paternal Unit is in the Hospital

I got a phone callĀ  last night that my father was in the ER. Seems the Egg fell hard on his knees trying to get up out of a chair. My mother tried to help him up, but she’s elderly … Continue reading

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Paternal Unit

I’m very worried about my father. Since mid-2007 he’s had oneĀ  health scare after another. A month before my mitrofanoff in Nov’07 my father went into St. Joseph’s Health Centre here in Toronto for surgery. One of his testicles had … Continue reading

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Child Care Provision

Here in Canada we have something called the “Canada Pension Plan” that each working individual contributes to, and based on those contributions one gets a “state pension” – very much in the same vein as Social Security, Old Age Pension … Continue reading

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