Hospital Tests. Edy and Pat and Gundega.

We were up early to go to the hospital this morning.  The wife had to go for routine tests.   She had an ultrasound done as well as an urine test.  The ultrasound showed a big Tony with a big head.  The urine test indicated a possible problem.  The wife will have to go back to the hospital tomorrow morning to have a blood test done.  If that test shows the same result as the urine test, the wife will have to be in the hospital till she gives birth.  The problem:   Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy.

I phoned my cousin Edy (Gundy's sister) and her husband Pat this morning.  I heard more details about Gundy's passing away.   Pat and Edy had to inform the nurses at the Riverview hospital in Winnipeg that Gundega was dead.   She apparently died during a fifteen minute period where no one was at her bedside.  Gundy's husband had to go and then  20 minutes later,  Pat and Edy arrived to see Gundega was dead.  The hospital was on skeleton staff because it was the long weekend.  A nurse said to Pat: "don't feel guilty because you weren't at her bedside."  He wanted to throttle her.

150 people went to Gundega's memorial including colleagues from her nursing days, class mates and members of the Libertarian Party.

Pat and Edy had had a hard time of it looking after Gundy.  Besides Gundy,  Edy and Gundy's mother Dzidra also needed to be taken care of after having had a hip operation.  Pat and Edy's every spare moment was spent looking after them.   But as Pat said, Gundega would have been the first to help them if they were in the same boat.  The best tribute I have heard to Gundy, and something for me to think about: will people said that about me when I die?

Talking to Pat and Edy, I saw that Gundy's death was a sadder thing than I imagined.

Pat's opinion on the candidates for the 2008 presidential election:  Sinatra did a song called '"send in the clowns".

Pat said this was the best definition of political-correctness he has ever heard:  it is the belief that you can pick up a turd from the good end.

Pat on the economy:  The credit market is ten times larger than the stock market.  And it is like a house of cards.  A recession is coming