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Oct. 31st, 2009 07:44 amSo, this Vienna vacation is drawing to a close.
On the whole, it has been a good one. I spent too much money, that much is clear, but how can one resist the temptation of shoezes? My favourite so far is a pair of black suede boots. Immensely unpractical but pretty. And the satisfaction of being able to just pull them up...
But I'm going to give back one dress I bought, both because it's really superfluous and because the colour doesn't quite suit me. I still have the receipt, and all the labels are in place, so that shouldn't be a problem.
The not-so-good news concerns my mother. After two major operations (knee in June and spine in September) she's severely anaemic and so tired she can hardly move. Since she's always been a very active person, this hits her twice as hard, and I can only hope she'll do what the doctor tells her to, i.e. reduce physical activity to a minimum for a while, eat well, rest, and get a cleaning woman, for heaven's sake. The doctor also ordered a CT scan of the pancreas and kidneys, obviously to excluse the possibility of cancer causing the symptoms. Unfortunately the idea of cancer isn't as far-fetched as I'd like it to be, because the constant back and abdominal pain might be due to more than just her spine problems. We'll see. I wish he'd sent her to the hospital right away, because I know how slim the chances are of her actually resting.
Receiving a phone call from her, just to tell me she was feeling awful, was quite a shock, too, because she's never done that. Considering what she must've gone through before her intestinal surgery 2,5 years ago, and also before the back operation in September, without telling me about it, this really worries me.
On the whole, it has been a good one. I spent too much money, that much is clear, but how can one resist the temptation of shoezes? My favourite so far is a pair of black suede boots. Immensely unpractical but pretty. And the satisfaction of being able to just pull them up...
But I'm going to give back one dress I bought, both because it's really superfluous and because the colour doesn't quite suit me. I still have the receipt, and all the labels are in place, so that shouldn't be a problem.
The not-so-good news concerns my mother. After two major operations (knee in June and spine in September) she's severely anaemic and so tired she can hardly move. Since she's always been a very active person, this hits her twice as hard, and I can only hope she'll do what the doctor tells her to, i.e. reduce physical activity to a minimum for a while, eat well, rest, and get a cleaning woman, for heaven's sake. The doctor also ordered a CT scan of the pancreas and kidneys, obviously to excluse the possibility of cancer causing the symptoms. Unfortunately the idea of cancer isn't as far-fetched as I'd like it to be, because the constant back and abdominal pain might be due to more than just her spine problems. We'll see. I wish he'd sent her to the hospital right away, because I know how slim the chances are of her actually resting.
Receiving a phone call from her, just to tell me she was feeling awful, was quite a shock, too, because she's never done that. Considering what she must've gone through before her intestinal surgery 2,5 years ago, and also before the back operation in September, without telling me about it, this really worries me.
