Sylvia's Journal

The new replacement plane appeared in my dreams. It looked very much like a Fisher-Price toy plane and could land straight down on a narrow strip between the trees. It did not need a runway. In my dream I was expecting a much sleeker and faster plane, like one of these corporate jets but I liked the way my new plane landed.

Not in my dreams, but in real life, I got myself a new aviation headset on e-bay. It is my ankle that is keeping me from flying but not much else is holding me back. It seems that I am coming towards the end of one chapter and about to begin a new one.

The dream was not so surprising because Arne from the Beverly Flight Center emailed me that a team of two is off to Columbus Ohio this week to check out a candidate to replace our wrecked plane. If it checks out well they will fly it back. I think I see a little outing to the flight center in the near future.

Yesterday was another rough day for Axel. The humidity affected us both but Axel had to take pain medication throughout the day and needed a long nap. He was not quite able to do what he had set out to do but he enjoyed the quiet time and not having hordes of people over. Groups of 6 or 7 people, as we have had for dinner two nights in a row, are enjoyable to all of us but I am noticing that they totally exhaust him. A quiet visit with one person works better for him.

Cynthia picked me up for Quaker Meeting after we had a wonderful bagel and lox breakfast with our night nursing team, Joellen and Phil. They agreed with Katy-Blair and Andrew that night nursing was a pretty good deal.

Katy-Blair came by to get a pan to cook mussels for her 7 Italian guests and quickly folded the laundry while she was at our house. A little later Martin Imm showed up to drop something off and we had another nice chat. Axel missed both of these visitors as he had gone to bed again and did not wake up until Susie Wadia-Ells arrived to continue the laundry, do errands and other chores. Last time she came she brought Joe the healer, this time she brought something else to help us heal. Everyone is rooting for us!

Sita and Jim came home early. While Sita was working at the Girl Scout Leadership Conference at Briar Cliff Manor north of New York, Jim had gone into the city at what may have been the hottest day of the year. They decided to come home early and skip the planned visit in the evening to friends who live in New York. So we canceled night nurse Edith and pulled one of the frozen gourmet meals that my colleagues at MSH had given me from the freezer. We watched Sunday night mystery on TV while Axel was multi-tasking like his old self and attending to Tessa’s computer needs in far off Canada.

We talked several times with Tessa over the weekend to follow her installation in her new home. She had baked cookies for her new neighbors in rural Lucan. Tessa has learned a lot about networks and relationships this summer. Her neighbors are all farmers living with their extended families and have been there for ever. She reported that the visits went well. We are happy that she and Steve are off to a good start.