Here's a nice Japanese New Year flower display.
Thanks to Okaasan's Hospital, which always has good flowers in the entrance hall - between the outer doors and the hand sanitizer spray and temperature check machine.
So. Yep. We are here. She is there. Another year.
The hospital was closed to visitors over the New Year holidays, and when we tried to visit on January 5 we found the door to the room closed.
Nurses told us that one of the stitches for the shoulder feeding tube had come loose, and the doctor was doing a minor procedure to make it ok. They invited us to wait a bit, but we decided to go back a day or two later.
Okaasan seems good. Her skin condition is excellent. She opens and rolls the eyes a bit. A little mouth moving. No response if we squeeze her hands. No fever.
"Life" as usual.
We've just had a relaxed winter break - eating and drinking, watching Tv...a bit of skiing. The cat now needs 3 fluid shots a week for his failing kidneys. We tried to do it ourselves, but the whole thing got far too stressy. So we've gone back to taking him into the vets 3 times a week. Thank god for am easy work schedule.
Onwards into 2026. A few changes a-coming. But we'll see...
