My dad died peacefully at 12:45 today. He had been unresponsive for the last week. The last month had been very trying for him.
At least the suffering is all over for him.
Thanks to all the staff at Lapa Munnik who kept him comfortable in his last days.
Rest in peace Dad, you will be missed by all of us.
Its that time again so we had to measure Kayra, she is now 1.18m and weighs 23kg.
Grandpa George was in hospital for an emergency blood transfusion. His Hb was down to 5.6. He got three pints of blood is is looking much more rosy and alert.
We heard that they had managed to make a one lane gravel road to St Francis so we left in haste to pick the kids up before it was washed away again.
There was a lot of mist around the Gamtoos river, was quite spectacular.
The kids were thrilled to see us and ouma and oupa were thrilled to see the kids go! Sounds like they all had a great time, even though the weather didn't play with.
The kids are spending the week with ouma and oupa in St Francis. They are now stranded there. After some flooding the bridge over the sand river collapsed and was washed away. They are now stranded on the island of St Francis Bay!
You can see the video here
The last few weeks have been rather hectic as far as Grandpa George goes. He has a bad reaction to the last blood transfusion and has gone done rather quickly.
We ended up with day and night care-givers. They did help but they still took a lot of our time and supervision.
Of course George didn't want anything to do with them initially. Last week he actually admitted that he enjoyed all the help.
During this time we decided that the time had come for proper care, so the search began for a frail care facility. We managed to get him into Lapa Munnik, a part of the Echo Foundation.
Its going to take a while for all of us to get used to the new arrangement. But I am sure that it is in his best interests to be in a place that specialises in caring for frail people.
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