Whats been up and down at 78 Glenstrae this week.
Hi everyone
Well the news of the week has to be the gold medal win by Caitlin and Zoe at the Maadi Cup reggata. Fantastic for them and everyone involved and undoubtedly the highlight of Sara's week. She got to watch it live by computer feed at the Salamander Art Gallery, courtesy of Anne and Bob - the visitors to the gallery were treated to a slightly milder version of the Maadi 2005 rock band but just as enthusiatic and even more wrapped that her buddies won this year! Hey you girls and all the coaching and support team what a result - fantastic, a testament to all the dedication and hours on and off the water - congratulations from all the Young Ones!
Last weekend was an exciting one for Sara and the Rams versus Nuggets game was great. Sara got to meet up with the players after the game including the American imports and get a few photos and signatures. The neatest thing about the game was meeting our long time friends Owen and Debbie Rees outside the Westpac Stadium and finding out that their son Ash was a Ram!
Unfortunately just as we almost reached home after the game, Sara had another seizure and we literally U turned in Ferry Road and went direct to CHOC. This one lasted quite sometime and was very scary for all of us. Sara spent 2 nights in hospital (with Sue staying over) and came home late Tuesday after another blood transfusion. Her medication has been altered and hopefully she doesn't have another episode like this for a while. She has been very tired as a result all week, and it has been very quiet for all of us since other than the rowing and a visit from our friends from Pleasant Point, Bill and Maureen Wright on Thursday (Bill was the Ranger at Kerikeri when I worked in Russell).Debbie Carter visited Sara for a couple of magic healing touch sessions at the hospital and at home later in the week - thank you Debbie.
Today was a beautiful day in Chch and we just enjoyed the day in the sun and Sara walked down to Redcliffs for some fresh air- her first real exercise for some time - she really enjoyed it. The day got even better courtesy of the Crusaders (yes I had to cruise to the local tavern to check out the second half) - they still rule eh Bob, Clare and Mark! It's not too late to finally admit that if you live in Canterbury you might as well join the winning team. After all this was the 14th win in a row!
Sara currently has a very low immunity level so please don't ask to come visiting if you think your getting, have had or had recently (ie in the last week or so) any bugs or colds or been in contact with anyone with anything infectious like this. Thank you and have a good week.
TTFN
Sara Sue Rob and Kate (on a road trip to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico)
posted by Rob Young @ 10:17 pm
13 comments
13 Comments:
Guess What!!
im First!!! yessssss!!!!!!
great your having a wicked time and getting better, not so great about your seizure though. hope your getting back to a box of fluffy ducks soon though.
just back from the big maadi cup! bitter sweet that its over, kinda wana go back but as im writing this am powering my way though a pack of tim tams and can safely say im enjoying them!! (i must sound obese..)
you twizel girls rocked the socks of everyone!!! nice work!
chated to zoe yesterday or friday and they have Determination with a capital!
will you be getting back to twizel at all during your time off?
hope so, and your hats are wicked aswell (changing the topic slightly..)
ran into cheese heapz and heapz (she has a nice wee medal too i must say!)
also saw sarah too, altough our partying spirt ran out early last night so didnt get to see the sights of T-town with her,
should possibly hit ma classics books before school tomorrow(and also befor someone else beats me to being first)
get well soon my little mellowpuff!!
best wishes and hugs,
Kate xoxo
I'm second!! (And am really naffed off I didn't check in earlier and so get to be first)
Hey it was a great week in Twiz with Maadi and everything. I found myself standing next to a pile of Villa girls at C and Z's presentation, and thought 'one of these has to be the famous Cheese', but in the end didn't try to find out which one you were Cheese. I didn't want to have my imagination re-jigged by reality. You know the sort of thing: you can't read Lord of the Rings now without seeing Viggo as Aragorn (who can even remember now what they thought Aragorn looked like before they saw the films?)(I guess if you hadn't read the books before then, that's tough)
Anyway I prefer the mysterious Cyber-Cheese who could be anywhere in the Villa contingent, than a real Cheese in person at this point. I like the fact that so many of us on this blog really only know each other in cyberspace. The famous Kitimat crew for wxample (though I did go through NW BC on the Skeena a few years ago and it was fabulous!)
Glad to hear that the rest of the weekend has been better Sara. Must go and do something constructive - the ERO visit looms large this week (procrastinators of the world unite!)
cheers
Granty
Hi Sara, well as you no those two palls of yours did us all proud and won the gold medal at Maadi. What a week it was. Poor young Wayne and Val had the pleasure of house sitting at 59 Jollie Rd with the brat pack ( I had to be nice to Zoe and Caitlin for nearly 12 hours, it was an agreement with them, if I was nice they would get the gold medal) , and they did. (Did you know they have Val and Wayne round their little finger, you should see it, its great) I know you were there in spirit as we could feel your present. Old Zoe and Caitlin were brought back in in the safety boat, if zoe could have talked (yes I agree amazing) then she would have said "can I drive the boat" but she could not. You should have seen all the people from Twizel calling from the bank what a noise, and to see the support from the town and school is something I will never forget. We had a BBQ that nite at 59 Jollie with all rowers, committee and parents, then we all went to the Maadi party, well at least the young ones went and we looked on, a very good nite for all. Sunday was cleanup day and that took most of the morning but got done evenually. we then took Zoe, Caitlin, Will Spry and Lucy out in the sweep 4 for a row(think they would have had a day off). We owe Will and Shelley a big thanks for the use of their house for the brats to stay in. Its one of those small town things that everyone supports each other. When we got back to the house Allan Grant came over with a poem he had written. He read it out and gave us a copy each. You should have heard it, Val was red eyed (and more) Wayne was seen to have something in his eye to, but it was great (unbelieveable) really that anyone would actually do this for the team, I was speachless. Anyway must go, I am still on cloud 9 with what those brats managed and did for themselves, families, school and town. I could not be more proud if they were my own kids and I know that Wayne and Val feel the same. Well hope you have a good week, look after yourselves and see you later. Deno
Good luck for ERO, Twizel team - our turn next week here in Nelson. You're right, Granty - we're all out here in cyberspace connecting and all because of young Sara Young.
Have a good week Sara, Rob and Sue. Kate nearly home and a few days to mellow out and watch the world go by.
Mart got a bit excited about Didymo headline in the Timaru Herald - until he got to the article and read the date as well. Good April Fool's Joke.
Fancy you being in the paper, Sara.
Much love to you all
Jane, Mart and Zoe
Hi Sara and the family, long time no hear from me but I'm back and pretty dangerous on crutches. Thanks for the good wishes Cynthia. Well the higlight of the week would have to be seeing Zoe & Caketin winning the gold wot an amazing thing. Most of Twizel was down lakeside shouting and yelling like crazy as the fab twosome rowed home. The hugging and crying and smiling and feeling of pride was wonderful, I had a lovely hug from Granty and one of my crutches went up and nearly knocked some poor woman into the middle of next week. There was plenty of hugs, and you know wot Sara it's true we all felt you were there too. Anyway onto more mundane things back to school today for everyone hope the ERO thing goes well.
I am making a good recovery from my op thanks for the encouraging txt Sara hopr you have a good break from the treatment take care lotse love Jacq & Jake
p.s. Jake got seventh at south island champs did well imaging if he trained!!!!!
Well there isn't much more to add that hasn't already been said about the "dynamic duo"!!! Great article in the Timaru Herald on Saturday about the girls doing it for you Sara! They truly are great mates.
Sounds as though you've had a full on week with plenty of excitement too. How thrilling to go to a Rams game-something I have always wanted to do-sweet.
However girl, with all that excitement you might have to slow down and not get too tired, you've got alot going on and sometimes the good ole body has a way of telling us to backtrack a bit and chill out.
Well I had better go back to work, you take great care of yourself. Best wishes to you all.
"Keep smiling sunshine"
Guess what somewhere in Cyber Space the gremlin struck and ate my letter to you.
Soo, congrats to the awesome,twosome of Twizel Girls, who pulled off a Gold. Congrats from us all here. Sara u must have just been jumping and pumping for them.
Sara, soo sorry you had another seizure this week. Hope you get back to your smiley self. Enjoy your healing touch.
I've just got back from Smithers visiting Liz T and family. Al T,has been shopping for horse and house. The horse Hogan is purchased no house yet.
Skinny skied to the Crater on Hudson Bay Mountain with Liz. I even survived the old tele skis.
Saturday nite had a real Bulkley Valley concert. The one room Drifwood Schoolhouse was really hopping. It was a sell out concert, inspite of the outhouse toilet, and one guy rode up on his horse for the event.
Today was a great day to relax and dream on the Malkow lookout. Spring is such an wonderful time here, snowy peaks, sunny warm river views. Gets one revived
Lothar and Stefan had a sunny day skiing at Shames Mtn.
Katherine has changed her plans,shes not leaving the North yet anyway. we will have our favourite chef to cook for us.
Hey Granty, I really would like to met you. Maybe on my next Twizel vacation. Sara this blogging has made us all wonder about our fellow blogsters.
love and hugs to all the youngs at Glenstrae
from Ruth Lothar Katherine and Stefan.
hey sara
im at boarding school writing this it hasnt been able to work in the past but hopefully it will now, it was soooooo AWSUM wen cait cait and zoe got the gold dont tell anyone this but (i was cheering for the twizel instead of craighead)who came 5th, i new cake and zoe could do it !!!!! i hope you got to watch it on the internet !!! im still really excited thinking about it!! im so proud of them and of you, but i must go off to do my supervisesd homework!! errrr boardings not that great and i miss all of my twizel mates, gtg luv ya lots xoxoxoxoxo
tiggy ;)
keep smiling :) x0x
hey gurl it me, gud old shaz! i know you probly dont wanna hear me goin on bout the rowing too... but you know me - of course i'm going to say something! lol it was honestly such a wicked race aye! we all cruised down in style... (yep, the hot brown van) and waited around for ages for their race (not that that was a bad thing really, coz there was lots of people I MEAN THINGS to check out lol) but yeah it was so kool i had the meanest butterflies ever while we were waiting for them to start aye and then as soon as they kicked back and took that first almighty stroke... it was mahem! little kids were screaming TWIZEL, TWIZEL, TWIZEL! all you could hear was their names, and twizel and go! and yeah stuff like that. shame you weren't there to cheer them on too aye... i'm sure you would've out cheered us all with your rather "high decibel" voice lol but yeah, it was like you were there aye and damn did they do us proud aye? sucks how zoe's cruising to craighead soon and passing on her talent to them though aye. oh well, guess that mean's they might as well start polishing that gold medal for caitlin next year at maadi when she wins the singles huh? anyways... enough about rowing! haven't really been up to much lately, we start tournament practice on friday! YAY! i can't wait... but aparantly the basketball is going to be mixed so it's gonna be like soooo gay! the boys will like fully get all the game time and they'll like hard out hog the ball and stuff... but then again, if they that does happen, then we'll win! so maybe it isn't such a bad thing after all? dunno what else i'll play, i guess i'll just see whats there and stuff. i dunno if i wanna play netball though aye. we like lost when we had you, kaysh, sarah and kirsty, so i dunno how we're going to be without you's! (um like really bad in case you were wondering)? but yeah, i dunno... guess someone's gotta lose and i guess twizel is good enough to take that priveledge? i wanna play touch too... and maybe like lawn bowls or something like incredibly amazing and so exhausting like that? lol i don't even know how to hold a bowl properly so you can count me out for that one! anyways gurl, besta be off but keep smiling :) thinking of ya! luv me xox
oh yeah... and i asked val if she had heard anything about us having a formal this year and she kinda looked at me like um?? what?? but yeah, she hasn't heard anything about it and if you're mates been invited then i don't think many people will be turning up aye. lol
sweet im outties xoxox mwah!
Hey Man
yeah well my immune system has also finally given up on me! i've got a cold! my nose is runny and my throat is sore and i sound like a man. Might b a result of all that yelling and cheering for all those other crews! we adopted random crews in each race and cheered for them when we got board!
Man there has been a bit of tension over the computer, everyone in my house reads at a different pace and i get frustrated waiting for others to finnish! ummm this is rally annyoing! i can't remeber what else there was in your blog, and there was someting i wanted to say! oh well, and the computer won't log into a 2nd time if ya know what i mean.oh i just got back in and there wasn't anything there that i could think of! wow that was a great load of pointless effort writing all that!
I feel mighty sorry for the other people in the art gallery! mmmm i just ate a marshmellow, i love not eating heatlhy stuff. Although me and zoe had a can of cake and a she had a pie and i had a donut, and we couldn't finnish it! well willis is nagging me to get off. ok well he says he 's not! well anyway i got art homework! hahahaha!
lots of love! posistive vibes coming your way!
caketin xoxox
Hi Sara, Rob and Susie.
Well there is not much more I can say about the success of our "Maadi Stars" than has already been expressed by all you bloggers out there except, that as a co-coach I am a mighty proud man and I can tell you this Sara, there was'nt a day went by during the regatta that your name did'nt come up as part of our squad, the Timarau Herald can attest to that,"they did it for their team mate".
I watched most of the girls events thru the view finder of my video camera, Shaf now has the tape and is going to edit and produce a DVD similar to your Maadi 2005 one, copy for you too of course.
It was disappointing having to scratch our novies out of the U15x2 event but it was a bit risky putting Alana on the water with her back the way it was.
Kandro was brilliant in looking after the girls aches and pains with spa and massage therapy.
Val and I really enjoyed being camp Mum and Dad at Will and Shelly's fishing lodge for the week, the girls got along so well as a team and I think it paid big dividends in the overall result,not forgetting the motavational team talks, race stratagies and analysis of other crews and race times etc delivered every night by Bill Feasey.
"Go Bob" turned out to be a wizard bread maker and turned up on our doostep at sparrow fart each morning with a hot loaf.
Not hard to believe that on their first day of R&R after the regatta that the girls wanted to go for a row just for a "bit of relaxation". They soon discovered why they don't like rowing sweep oar.
Will get a copy of Granty's poem to you if someone has'nt already done so. Deno was right about it bringing a tear to certain individuals eyes but he failed to mention his own because every time I looked at him he was studying a fly speck on the ceiling.( just to stop the tears rolling down his not so tough checks ) Thanks a million Granty, you are brilliant, I think we should post your poem for everyone to read, what do you say out there bloggers????
Well Sara, hope you enjoy a bit of quality time away from the hospital routine while the boffins plan your next course of treatment.
As always, looking forward to seeing you all again but will have to wait till the Lurgy passed on to me by some rowing nutter has cleared up.
Untill then, Cheers.
Wayne
Can't wait to read the POEM.
Post the poem!
<< Go back to the main page