Whew. Another good day. How lucky are we? It started really funny with Tara in major GRUMPY mood...because Kimberley (her new doll with the amputated legs) was having a bad hair day! She brushed and brushed her hair - but no matter how much we said Kimberley looked fab, Tara was like "ARGH! NO! She looks terrible. Her hair is SO messy!!!!" So she brushed and freaked - and Kimberley's one leg kept falling off...and then - whew - totally calmed down and said 'sorry Mama' a couple of times. And after that, no more bad mood. In fact - if anything - she was a clown most of the day - and is dancing in bed right now (kinda doing a rip off of a B-girl).
Lots of lovely visitors - including her school chaplain - how cool is that? And by the end of the day - after visits from Mr Dredge, Shane and Christina and deliveries of such divine flowers from Theano and Maria (Shane says Tara's life is like a little rose bud - about to open and blossom) - her bed was looking more like a magical toy shop! PLUS Son - your gorgeous gifts did arrive and no worries about no card - the girls knew straight away who they were from and all 3 were SO excited. THANK YOU!The docs are really happy with Tara's progress and asked if we'd like her to go home tomorrow - but we've elected instead to let her have the epidural for one more day - so we'll be going home on Saturday! Can you believe it? So soon! And then she'll be able to chat on the phone!!! Right now she's bedridden and no mobiles allowed in here BUT we did do a quick escape with a borrowed wheelchair...altho' only lasted a couple of minutes because the batteries on her epidural machine went flat. Blah! We (Tone and I) escaped a little further afield - to the movies (Juno - divine!); Cas went on a school excursion to Brisbane Art Gallery (conveniently close by) and Jadie had Granny all to herself for 4 hours in the Science museum. And now we're all watching Elf together on Tara's new DVD player! (And we did need to do a quick 'look at your legs in the mirror/window' again tonight - and again it worked to solve the ticklish toe syndrome!)
We're sending our prayers and best wishes to the twins' beautiful and very special teacher Mrs Lewis. We wish you a speedy and complete recovery and the girls are gonna miss you sooooo much this year. You've been the perfect teacher for Tara this year and helped so much in preparing her for this week. Thank you. And a big HELLO to Year3R (Cassie says: "you're all very lucky because Mrs Raison is so nice and such a lovely teacher!").
3 comments:
Brilliant, brave, courageous, gorgeous Tara. How thrilled we were to hear that your amputation went well and that you and your now very famous leg are doing so brilliantly. Less thrilling is the fact that we are making these wishes post op. As luck would have it, we have been without a telephone line for a week and more importantly without ADSL for 2 weeks which meant we were not able to communicate with you before you undertook this very huge step and nor were we able to follow your process each day. We are still not connected but I could not wait to send you a couple of lines to tell you that we have talked about you, thought about you and talked about you some more. And we won't stop. I bet you cant wait to get back home and start your healing process surrounded by your marvellous family. Just as soon as we are back online we'll try chatting. In the meantime Max and Katia send tons of love and urge you to keep on being so incredibly strong and grown up.
This quote accurately sums up both you and the entire Panayis Family:
"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results."
-Anon.
With much love to you all
Manu, Vico, Tat & Max
Tara,
I am just so impressed by how you are managing. At school we are all thinking about you frequently and hoping that you are still smiling. Everyone loves your Blog site and the photos make a big difference in helping us understand what is happening.
Mrs Kirby is back at school today and I am sure she will be in touch soon. You must come to the office when you return to school to show me the new leg and well you are walking and I guess running very soon.
Have a great weekend.
Mr Crawley
Head of School
Boy oh boy
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