Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wednesday 12th March 2014……a mini road trip!!!!

My friend John Doherty is a SMA winter resident that helps this community in so many ways and one of his huge projects is the school for hearing impaired children and today he asked me to help in transporting some of the students to the Bicentennial park in Guanajuato and of course I said yes.

So I left home at 8.30am after saying good morning to the boys and girls in the hood!!!!

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The deaf school..

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John and I had 6 students with us and it took us about 80 minutes to get to the park

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it was a really interesting visit with the exhibits and the different pavilions well organized and the students had a great time…they showed interest in everything.  It was an eye opener for me being around them how friendly they were, always smiling and they taught me some signs….I was shocked to learn that there is not an International signing…..so these young people learning signing here would be different from Canada or the States.

Arrived back in SMA around 4 pm and it was a great day!!!!

I relaxed for a while before I went to my English class…the level 6 teacher did not show so the students from that class joined me I have taught them a few times last semester so it was fun to have them in the class…we did lots of reading and talking and they all seemed to enjoy the class.

Home and had a light supper and now watching tennis, followed by soccer and ending with hockey….save your comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is good news!!!

 

 

Schumacher condition shows 'encouraging signs'

Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher has been in a medically induced coma for two and a half months

 

Injured Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher has been showing "small, encouraging signs" in his fight for recovery, his family says.

"We are and remain confident that Michael will pull through and will wake up," the relatives said in a statement.

Doctors in France have been working to bring the seven-time champion out of a medically induced coma.

The 45-year-old German suffered a severe head injury in a skiing accident in the French Alps on 29 December.

He has been kept in a coma to help reduce the swelling in his brain

'Hard fight'

On Wednesday, Schumacher's manager, Sabine Kahn, released a statement on behalf of his family because of "an increasing interest in [his] condition in light of the start of the Formula 1 season".

 

Medically induced coma

  • Can be induced by powerful anaesthetics and is broadly similar to the sedation and artificial ventilation used during surgery
  • Used to shut down many brain functions, lowering blood flow and pressure
  • Taking a patient out of an induced coma is a delicate process, especially after a prolonged period of sedation
  • Doctors and relatives are looking for any signs of returning consciousness and recovery

The family praised the efforts of the French doctors at Grenoble hospital, but also warned that "it was clear from the start that this will be a long and hard fight for Michael."

"We are and remain confident that Michael will pull through and will wake up. There sometimes are small, encouraging signs, but we also know that this is the time to be very patient," the statement added.

Investigators probing the accident said Schumacher had been going at the speed of "a very good skier" at the time of his crash in the resort of Meribel.

He had been skiing off-piste when he fell and hit a rock, investigators said.

Experts reconstructed events leading up to the crash after examining Schumacher's skiing equipment and viewing footage filmed on a camera attached to his helmet.

Schumacher retired from racing in 2012 after a 19-year career.

He won two titles with Benetton, in 1994 and 1995, before switching to Ferrari in 1996 and going on to win five straight titles from 2000.

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Family statement in full:

"We are and remain confident that Michael will pull through and will wake up. There sometimes are small, encouraging signs, but we also know that this is the time to be very patient.

Michael has suffered severe injuries. It is very hard to comprehend for all of us that Michael, who had overcome a lot of precarious situations in the past, has been hurt so terribly in such a banal situation.

It was clear from the start that this will be a long and hard fight for Michael. We are taking this fight on together with the team of doctors, whom we fully trust. The length of the process is not the important part for us.

It is heart-warming to see how much sympathy his family is shown and I can say that the family is extremely grateful for it. However, it should not be forgotten that Michael's family is dealing with an extremely intimate and fragile situation. And I would like to remind all of us that Michael has always actively kept his family out of the public eye and consequently protected their private lives.

We try to channel all the energies we have toward Michael and we firmly believe that this will help him. And we believe that he will also win this fight."

 

I was going through some od photos and came across this one

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Mum, my Bro Malc and little me taken in 1957 in Paris…I have sent this on to my Brother and I would love to find the location when we travel to Paris in May and reproduce this shot!!!!

Yashi Kochi!!!

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