weekend post (x+2x)

and another week is over and i am gladly at home for 3 blissful nights. ^^
this week ... nothing special. the guy that promised my diving boot didn't deliver, but that was to be expected. oh well, maybe next week.
best thing of the week? rebecca moved out of our room. poor girl, she had a car crash and she can walk. she's also mega-confused and keeps demanding me and the other girls in our room to "get OUT! this is MY room!" she left me terrified that she would attack and kill me. she has the advantage after all, she can walk. but the nurses reassured me that they would look after all of us, so ... ok. i admit, i was further creeped out when i came back from breakfast one morning to have one of the other girls tell me, "hey, you know that girl rebecca? she was standing in your cupboard before, BUTT-NAKED. i made sure she left all your things alone."but mum told me one last thing - the last girl in our room can walk, so if anything happens i can just scream for her. ^^
worst thing of the week? friday lunch, the kitchen staff decide to walk off the job. they're striking over carparks. i mean, usually, i wouldn't care, but what would i get for lunch? turns out there was 2 options. beef salad (from yesterday's lunch), or sandwiches. seeing as i don't like beef, but my favourite meat is chicken, i went with the sandwhiches. only thing? honestly, whoever heard of chicken sandwhiches with STRAWBERRY JAM on them? oh well, it was weird, but it DID taste ok. and even better, the tea lady made me a cuppa exactly as i prefer it - white with 2.
that's another question i have for everyone. is it normal to take your tea with two sugars? i mean, there used to be a guy (tones), who took his coffee white and THREE. now THAT'S excessive. but honestly, 2 sugars? what's wrong with that? mum seems to think there's a problem; she usually tells the tea lady/man to just give me 1/2. i mean, am i drinking tea or coloured water?
am proud to report that the blood lady left me alone this week (phew.) ^^ she got me last week, but at least i told her if she was coming for me again, she had better bring me a lolly or sth like that. hehe... ^^ surprisingly, she actually wrote my name down and promised to remember. fingers crossed!
house this week was good. the patient was some professional stuck in the south pole, so the entire thing had to be done by video link. funniest thing, house had to do an exam, so he sat down and ordered the lady to 'strip'. cool, unflappable lady's response? 'after you.' hahaha!
well, that's all from me this week. i hope you all are enjoying today, which only comes around once every four years!
see most of you at church on sunday!
cheers,
em. ^^
p.s. it seems that i won't be able to get a break on sunday after all. ?*exasperated sigh* argh, somebody SAVE me! ><
p.p.s. my birthday soon! just a reminder, i would like jewellery for my birthday, coz i made a box to hold stuff like that at OT this week. ok, bye!^^

weekend post x+3x

my mum loves me except when she's bashing me up. :"(
hehe, just joking. really, only superficial wounds. !^^
let's see... woke up this morning and had breakfast. unfortunately, mum's orange marmalade has already been polished off by me, but mum was cool and bought a big new scotch marmalade conserve. yummy!
so off we trundled to church. i admit, neither i nor my dear mum remembers the speaker's name, but oh well. ^^" today was communion too.
after service ended, i invited hannah to my bday party, then we went home. dad left to go to the physio, and mum cooked nissan instant noodles (sadly, only original flavoured. no chicken flavoured left, but mum promises to buy some soon. ^^)
i got up after a whopping 3(possibly 31/2) hour nap, and as for afternoon tea we demolished the last of pole's healthy fruit buns. this one had a few sultanas in it.
anyways, aunty yvonne is popping along later (around 5); mum was cool and asked her to bring her electrocution machine so my hair can all stick up :P just kidding, it's only like 5volts, max. i think.
oh wells, have a lovely week, peoples! remembers, i love visitors and i love food. more specifically, i love visitors who BRING food.
byebye!
cheers,
em. ^^
p.s. cool, aunty a is popping along for dinner. ^^

weekend post x+2x

ooh, me again. tada!!!!!!!!!^^
this morning, dug up by dad to wait for uncle wallace the OT. he came, and we did a session. good news, he said my fingers were nice and relaxed.
after he left, and mum came home, we hadlast night's dinner leftovers for lunch.
after that, vincent the physio popped over. second session, and i walked myself to the loo.
after, my arvo tea was one of those lovely 80c thingd from aunty anne. after that was even better- coz pole and murray popped along!
murray was awesome, coz while he didn't bring me back a pet sheep (oh well), he got me 2 pencils with 'sheep next 1000km' on it and a pair of socks with kiwi birds on them! thanks murray!^^
anyways, i soon wailed to pole that i was 'big hungry', and pole was a champion and went down to bilo to get us some afternoon tea. i guessed a meat pie, murray was even more daring with his guess of fish and chips, but trust pole to be a healthy girl and come back with 3 fruit buns. haha!
at least she made up for it by bringing back a 600ml chocolate breaka too. ^^ and oops, i just remembered that we forgot to pay her back! oopsie ... sorry, pole. ^^"
anyways, after they left i went to the bathroom and finished off the bread. mum slurped the choccie milk down to the dredgs. even better, uncle barry and aunty alice will come soon. i miss them. ><
dad's gone swimming and mum is packing various things.
ok, see you again toms! most prolly at church, i guess. take care, and fingers crossed for no therapies toms! byebye!
cheers,
em. ^^

rest for the weary

lol, 3rd time lucky. i've tried twice already, with no luck. fingers crossed!
anyways, i thought i'd just blog about sth that's recently become very important to me.
i want a break.
no, i desperately need a break.
honestly.
see, my monday to sunday can only be defined by one word:therapies. or, maybe, exercises.
let's start with the week.
i go back to the hospital every monday morning.
therapies start at 9am, and the last appointment of the day begins at 3:30pm. in one day, i may have sppech, occupational and physical therapies. usually it's only two a day, occasionally three. when it's only one, it is always without a doubt physio.
that's just monday to friday.
start saturday, it's even busier. mornings brings uncle wallace the OT. that's one session.
after lunch pops along the physio. that's two sessions.
late afternoon, sometimes it's uncle tony the second occupational therapist (btw, he prefers to be known as t-man). we end the day on four sessions. even heavier than a weekday, wow.
let's try sunday. after church, lunch and home, along pops the entire cheung family. one occupational therapist, one physio, and two kids. and that brings us sessions five and six.
i mean, i am honestly very, very grateful to all these wonderful adults for helping me out. i really do appreciate all the support they provide.
but do i make sense when i try to explain how i am truly buggered by all the therapies/exercises i have to do/endure?
to be honest here, i have seriously contemplated suicide before. i mean, just end it all, you know? no more worries, no more stress. just final oblivion. but what's pulled me back is the fact that if you commit suicide, you go to hell. end of story. happy burning forever. not for me, thankyou. i've spilt hot tomato soup over my hands before, and ... ouchies!!!!!!>< so don't worry about that guys, i'll be pestering you for decades to come. ^^
so yeah. end of story, i guess. fingers crossed for my one day a week break, you'll hear if i am successful or not.
hope you're all having a lovely saturday, and i'll see most of you at church toms!
woohoo, afternoon tea time for me - thanks to aunty anne who brought me one of those beutiful 80c custard things.
cheers,
em. ^^

weekend post (x+x)

now i've done it ... i can't remember which number i was adding to the 'x'! think it was somewhere around 13, though.
well ... this week:not much to report at all. the usual lots of therapies, the usual meals (every week, it's the same. i must've been eating chicken salad every monday for like 9 months. how boring.
highlight of the week? one of the nurses (thanks, orli) gave me a strawberry breaka poppa to drink. yuuuuuuummy. ^^
oops, there's a second highlight of the week too: for the first time in 3 weeks, my stinky left leg got to be showered! (remember, it was the one that got casted).
flop of the week? well, wednesday is my icecream day. i usually wait till dinner to get my once-a-week little tub of vanilla icecream, but this week, habib the food man said no! and i honestly don't remember eating any at lunch. poor em. the only question is now:should i get a cheesecake for my birthday or an icecream cake? votes must be in within 3 weeks.
funny thing of the week? one morning, a nurse called helen took me to the bathroom. trouble was, i ended up getting stuck on the hand wash basin with my wheels! helen the nurse runs for bob the physio, who very kindly fixed it up, freeing me from the bathroom i thought i'd be stuck in forever - of course, not without first commenting something like, "geez, em. what have you broken THIS time?"
oh well. i guess i'm very pleased to report that murray and pole will be visiting me tomorrow! i wonder if murray will bring me a pet elephant ... he's already gotten me a cute lil dog, aptly named 'mason murray chan'.
hmm ... that's all from me, folks. have a smashing weekend, and i'll see most of you guys on sunday! remember, i love visitors!
cheers,
em. ^^ (whose mother MUCH prefers she was called'happy chan' seriously!)

weekend post x+14

yup ... me got dug up this morning, had breakfast (toast with mum's cool orange marmalade), then off we trundled to church.today's speaker was anne wan, and what can i say? i scored. ^^ am now the proud new owner of a cool new pen. julz scored too, but mine is cooler coz it's blue. :P
after church, we resumed our trundling, this time to food court. i was so hungry i got a big kebab (usually we just get a snacxk one). dad tried a whopper stunner deal, which mum said was weirds coz the storm desert tasted like ... coconut? i dunno. for herself, mum got rice noodles with fat pork and whatever else.
back home, i bedded down for a nap, got up coz the entire cheung family popped over. poor mel had algebra homework to do, sam had some other one, but we started with OT first and did volleyball exercises, followed by cup lifting exercises, followed by figure of 8 exercises. the cool thing? i got them all to sign my cast. ^^ we did walking too, then i had to go to the loo coz i had 2 cups of milk. the first was with my arvo tea of a subperb sausage bun, the second after we munched yummy chocolates (maybe from uncle wallace? ) then we moved to PT and went walking with dad's walking freame. i did count the steps it took from the dining room to the loo, but i forgot >< i'm sorwee!
anyways, mum just popped out and reminded me that the chocolates are actually from shelley, who moved to SIU (the spinal injury unit) poor girl, she ended up in here coz she fell down the stairs, broke her back, and had so much internal bleeding they didn't dare to operate on her yet.
went to the bathroom before they left, and also informed them of my escape plan. uncle colbert was awesome and said we'd haveta go to fasta pasta to eat fettucine carbonara to celebrate my 21st birthday. i think it's a great idea!
okies, have a good week, everyone. some of you are already back at uni (such as pole and dr. chickenhump), but if you're not, do come visit! i'd love to see you around!
cheers,
Em. ^^

weekend post x+13

?*sulks* no-one has commented since the 25th of january! *wibbles, then loses it and proceeds to full blown wailing* so feel GUILTY, all you mean people!
*stops sulking long enough to keep blogging* well, dad dug me up this morning for a breakfast of bread, cheese a nd tomato sauce, before uncle wallace the OT popped over for a session. apparently my fingers are really tight this week, i dunno. we also had sweet potato soup ?('farn sheu tong sheui') for those who speak canto, before mum came back. lunch was chicken cooked by dad, some of aunty vicky's delicious 'lor bak go' (it isn't really 'carrot cake' in english, is it?), and cup of milo which was a big surprise coz dear dad dared to tell me this morning that there was none left! vincent the physio soon popped over, and we did a session, including two walks, the second of which went from the dining room to the loo. we also whacked it out on the wii before he left. i'm very depressed to say he won me, but it took a tough five setter, and he only won in the end coz he discovered how to fire aces! poor em. :(
anyways, so i'm obviously on the net blogging, dad is terrorising his wii opponent in the boxing, and mum's hit sleepyland. oh dear, poor4 dad just got knocked down. never fear, he got back up by the count of 7.
anyways, christy jie will come visit soon. oh dear, poor dad has been KO'ed by his wii opponent. ah well, better luck to him the second time!
see most of you guys at church toms!
cheers,
em. ^^

weekend post x+12

yello! i'm baaaaaaaaack! ^^
not much of a week to report. i had no physio on monday - i usually have it every day - because my physio had the week off, and her replacement had an RDO. no OT either, turns out the OT had an ADO, and no speech, coz speech isn't on every day.
well, i got my third cast put on this week; don't worry, my toes are looking healthy and have not turned red, green, blue or black. remember, you only get to sign my cast if you come visit me, so come on, peoples
to be honest, that's really all i gotta say, except a big thankyou to smelly who visited me twice this week and brought me a naruto CD, and sharon and aunty anne who brought me a charsiu bun for lunch on thursday !
right, me going to physio now. tata, peoples!
cheers,
em. ^^

weekend post x+11

heylo, hello, hi, errm, that's it. :P
well, silly me missed church today. sorry!>< either i overslept, or (according to dad) spent too long in the shower, but whatever the case, it was already 10am by the time i looked at the clock! oops? ^^"
anyways, mum and dad gave me a hand and i got a pedal on the exercise bike, same as i do in physio. i like the bike! b`efore i got s`ick, `i` used to `ra`ndomly hop on ours and go for a 5 km peddle. of course, dad would just ask why i didn't go for longer, like 10km. :P
we headed out to plaza afterWards coz my glasses needed fixING. You knoW Those Little side piECES That rest on your nose? well, my right one fell off somewhere. anyways, it's three bucks to replace one, but only five bucks for both, so mum chose for me to get both replaced.
that done, i got to munch some very yummy kfc for lunch, dad had some too, as did mum. not sure how a 2-piece feed feeds three people, but fair enough. we also had those yummy 80cent things, mine was chocolate this time. i presume dad munched red bean, dunno what mum had ... maybe taro?
lunch over, we drove over to super amart (note the distinction betwqeen that and amart all sports) to look at beds. coz when i eventually get home, i'm gonna need somewhere to stay, and since i can't manage stairs yet, the study seems an ideal location to bunker down for awhile . i found my lovely old bed, but decided i didn't want the same one again. my bed can stay up in my room waiting for me. ^^
anyways, went home and i hit the bed for a snooze - not sure how long i slept, mum doesn't know either, but maybe 2 hrs? anyways, dad's gone to baddy. when i got up, mum and i had a custard 80c thing plus a glass of milk as arvo tea. so, am popped on the net now, just blogging and chatting to josh.
dunno what's in store this week; my physio has the whole week off on hols!
remember, you gotta come visit me if you want to sign my cast! i've already nagged leanne into coming this week, so consider yourselves nagged!ok, cya!
cheers,
em. ^^

weekend post x+10

greetings peoples!^^
well, mum toddled off to work this morning, so i toddled up as dad toddled to the front door to let uncle wallace in. we did an OT session, and he told me he actually lost his leg when he was like 5yo, coz he got run over by a bus! poor bugger. i commented it must've been annoying when he hit puberty, sprouting taller so time to get another leg, to which he agreed.
after he left, dad fed me breakkie - you guessed it - bread, cheese and tomato sauce. mum came back for lunch - really yucky coleslaw pasta (trust me, you DON'T want to try it), and nissan instant noodles - surprisingly, chicken flavoured. quite nice!
after lunch was finished, we decided to whump it out on the wii - first i whumped mum straight sets for 2 games - i think she won ONE game, then me and dad battled it out in two five-set matches (both, happily, won by me )
anyways, mum's hit snoozeland - i predict she'll be up again around 4, dad's still on the wii - he knocked the wii opponent out in 30 seconds! yeah, go dad ^^
i'm just online, blogging and chatting to an irate vince - whose boss owes him 26hrs pay! oh dearie me ... ><
righteo, see most of you guys tomorrow. remember, you only get to sign my cast if you come and visit me!
cheers,
em. ^^

friday post

and doesn't it feel just FANTASTIC to wake up in your own bed on a friday morning? ^^!
well, actually refused to get dug up until 1:05pm today. begged mum for ham and eggs for breakfast, but mum promised that for lunch and instead fed me a lovely sausage bun which dad had picked up this morning.
mum's gone for a nap now, so i'm just blogging and chatting to letty and josh. was chatting to murray too - he's in nz! but he's gone now.
anyways, just a short updatey post for today. i'm going to go watch naruto now, wearing my awesome state of origin queenslander shirt.
ok, remember guys, you can't sign my cast unless you come visit me!
cheers,
em. ^^
p.s. ohh - almost forgot! last night we went to pole's house for dinner. we had bbq pork, that other pork with yummy crackling on top, mushrooms, other delicious things, and sth that aunty catherine made that i can neither name nor describe - but it was yummy! OK, byebye!!

chinese new year post

GONG HEI FAT CHOI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!^^
really, i reckon 'fart' encapsulates the word better, but let's be good little children, ok? :P
anyways, mum was a legend and asked dr. park in advance if they could take me out for the new year, it being such an 'important' festival to us and all. :P *cough, cough, cough*
dr. park said it was fine - so here i am now, at home, happily blogging. even better, i might JUST have fooled vince into believing that i successfully ran away from the hospital today *shhhhh* don't tell him!!!!!!
oh well, it wasn't a particularly exciting week - i think the highlight was a nurse came to dig me up at 6:20, and i begged her for 5 more mins, but she was so sweet she gave me 10. thanks, meg!
most interesting thing of the week prize goes to my physios, who sawed off my signature filled cast and promptly splatted another one on. i think i'll limit this one's signature's to only those who visit me - so come on, peoples!
lol i was extremely lucky to get a red pocket from aunty anne (thank-you so much!) but dad was even cooler and strung up heaps by the christmas tree (yes, it's still up, and will prolly stay up till next christmas unless sth more important goes there) and let me and mum pick and guess for which one has the money in them. we only tried one each, then gave up and felt each one for the money in it instead. dad gave me a really cool one with 20 love hearts, adressed to his squirrel kid from her acorn daddy. my dad rocks!!!!!!
anyways, went home with aunty vicky with mum, had arvo tea, then went to vincent the physio, so right now my body is nice, floppy and content.
anyways, uncle calvin invited us over to his place for dinner tonight - cool! they can allsign my cast! better yet, hope aunty catherine makes her speciality tomato and eggs!
cheers,
em. ^^
p.s. tonight, mum and i are proud to be wearing matching canterbury long sleeved shirts that dad got us!they're white, with blue, brown, and pink stripes! don't we look spiffy^^ ok, bye!

sunday post4

yup ... so i got up this morning, had mum's special orange marmalade for breakfast, then off we trundled to church. today's speaker was uncle derek; it was good to see him!!^^!
off we trundled to foodcourt for lunch, but a little incident prevented us from getting there. i reckon dad lost his temper, mum reckons i lost mine, it'll just have to go down as one of the mysteries of life.
back home, i was eventually allowed lunch, bread with only cheese, coz mum said no tomato sauce as a consequence. not really a sore loss to me; cheese on bread by itself is as nice as cheese on bread with tomato sauce. bedded down for a nap afterwards, but had to get up as the whole cheung family came over. poor mel and sam hit their homework (poor little sods) while we did an OT session first followed by a PT one. unfortunately i forgot to get them to sign my cast, but on the up side aunty winnie made us a whole plate of 'lor bak go'!! mum and i munched some as arvo tea, then slight panic occured as she realised she had forgotten to cook the rice! i rang dad, who's still at baddy, we rang dad with all due haste, who reassured us that he had already boiled it before and that it was just sitting in the freezer awaiting our consumption. yeah, go dad!!^^!
anyways, mum is just writing some stuff, i'm on the net blogging, and dad's still at baddy, but he'll be home soon. ok, have a great week, peoples! comment if you can, but most of all, please come visit me!!!!!!!!!!! (and bring food too, but that's just a side issue).
cheers,
em. ^^

weekend post x+9

yo again. me again. posting again.
let's see ... no variety on breakfast this morning - bread, cheese and tomato sauce. will somebody, ANYBODY, please, please, PLEASE bring me a fun pack of cereal? i've been having cornflakes for umpteenth months straight!
anyways, uncle wallace and we did an OT session this morning. good news - he said my fingers weren't as tight as they were last week.
after he left, dad, for some reason unbeknownst to me, refused to let me go on the computer, so i pushed myself. it took awhile, but i got there, but i couldn't get all the switches, so i just mucked around with microsoft word until mum came home and flipped on the modem for me. we then had lunch - leftover dinner from last night- then mum plopped me back on the nwet. mum has gone to snoozeland and dad's bashing it out on the wii (he's really very good at theboxing!) and i'm just blogging, gonna be reading fanfiction soon after.
see most of yous toms!
cheers,
em. ^^