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2007 - September 15th - Saturday

Kathy phoned JH.  {At first, JH wrote a manuscript note of this conversation, as JH still did not have a functioning computer.}  Kathy is still very weary and doing ‘daft things’ – but not just her – Ralph as well!  They went to the Hospital for Ralph’s heart check-up and, after waiting for some time amongst the milling crowd, they looked at the appointment letter again and realised that they were there a week early!

Kathy asked JH for the List of Addresses which she sent out after one of the Reunions (actually, after the first Millennium Reunion held in Althorne in July 2000); Kathy was rather dismayed to hear that JH’s computer was down but JH reassured her that she had hard copies of everything in her Family Tree File; Kathy wished to communicate with other members of the family who were asking her for contacts (she had lost all her records in the bag she left leaning against the tree in Greenwich Park in July 2006).


 

JH and Mary had not wished to use the Skinner’s apartment at Croyde Bay, Kathy had let Sylvia Folkard, nee Hipsey, (her grandfather being the brother of JH’s grandfather) together with her husband, use the apartment - to celebrate both their 70th birthdays: the couple were delighted.  However, Kathy said that although the Folkards had planned to visit JH, K really felt that they would not have time, as they were planning to visit lots of other places.  This conversation arose because JH told Kathy that JH had just ‘stepped through the door’ at 5.00pm: JH explained that she had been away the previous night staying with her midwifery friend, Pam Deeble, in Pensilva because P and JH had attended Sterts Theatre – just down the road - on Friday (the previous evening) to see ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (and there was no bus back to St Budeaux).  In any event, Sterts is a long way from Croyde Bay, as is JH’s abode, and so JH did not expect the Folkards to come all the way down to Plymouth, or South East Cornwall for that matter.

Kathy undertook to send an email to Diana Prince, the Health Reporter at the Herald;  K will suggest that Diana should contact JH to arrange to interview the latter, because that’s how it’s done with K’s local Paper.  {Obviously, JH had misunderstood previously, as JH thought that K was going to send the photos (of K and JH in Hospital) to a reporter at the Herald directly.}.

Kathy told JH that Lyn, Lorraine and Michelle’s stepmother, had died about a week ago; Lorraine had gone over to Spain twice; Lorraine was seeing a Counsellor, as L was ‘really in a state’; furthermore, she had not been at work.

Ralph is well and ‘behaving himself; he had had a blood sugar of 6 at one point; the Doctors had put him on different tablets.  Both he and Kathy are putting on weight: K said that her lack of mobility did not help; she had had an MRI and, as soon as the report is produced, a letter will be sent to Mr Sudlow, the Orthopaedic Surgeon who operated on her back in the 1980s, in Southend Hospital.  Kathy also said that she has problems with piles (which, again, could be exacerbated by her lack of mobility, dosing-up with analgesics, etc, etc.) and had, already, had injections (presumably sclerosing) into her piles in the past.

JH told Kathy that JH’s problems with her left shoulder, arm and neck, were better – in so much as she was not on so many painkillers, and was particularly avoiding the codeine.



 
 
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