Day 69 Sat-Slowly, slowly we are tired.

The body is so used to getting and going sleeping in just didn’t happen…however an hour extra is a sleep in isn’t it…
Got the mundane things like washing sorted and all the kitchen gear like my grocery bag and the extra bag of containers etc…unpacked and distributed to poor Tim he ended up with lots extra…not that he wanted much that’s for sure..,

Then went shopping with Tim to the Markets…his local Kitchener weekend market is so much better than that St Jacobs one…the St Jacobs Market is just too big and too much rubbish…… this market is a fresh market….. it’s great….we wandered around looking at the table after table after table of wonderful fresh produce…Different varieties of Tomatoes….carrots , zucchini’s, cauliflowers, broccoli, onions, potatoes 🥔, plus so many different other veggies….then we found all the different varieties of mushrooms…one called Lions Head…it really looked different…another a lovely yellow colour and another a dark yellow, one you can substitute as seafood as has a sea foodie taste 🤔🤔…Tim bought up on these…then we headed inside to the meats, seafood….breads, pastries, maple syrups, plus, plus, plus….all the veggies are on the outside…the meat etc on the inside…they all looked so fresh and really good prices…however Tim decided we would head to his Butcher instead…before then he bought bagels and Labner a kind of cheese…then across the road to the gourmet shop with cheeses and more breads, baguettes…it really is a foodies paradise….from the butches which was like a mini deli in itself to around the corner to a Pastry, come bakers shop called Lenjo…it’s where Tim and Jess had struck up a friendship with the Baker Lenore…Lenore had done her training under Cordon bleu…or the like and had trained for quite awhile in New Zealand plus did some time in Adelaide and Melbourne…Tim had convinced her to make Lamingtons to sell only when she first started doing them he was on the West Coast of Canada and couldn’t try them…She now only does them once weekly…She also bakes pies….small pies like we have at home…small as we refer to them as hand pies, in this country aren’t a thing…so it’s getting people try them…so for now she offers breakfast pies…which seem to fly our the door…I bought 2 Macaroons for myself still to try..,and a Gateau cake for John which was overly sweet even though he ate it, it wasn’t to his liking 🤔🤔🤪🤪 silly him…

I also bought Melatonin 5 mg tabs…it’s something we can’t buy at home…Melatonin is made in the brain and when people have difficulty sleeping it’s more than often due to A drop in Melatonin…..also as we age it can be to do with the drop in cortisol and Melatonin….so we often need to replace it with a medication….we can get 2mg from our GP in Australia ….any higher must be through a Compounding Pharmacist and that’s usually no more than 3mg…Dad has compounding Melatonin and it costs him Over $60.00 for about 100 tabs…
I bought 120 5 mg Tabs for $5.59ca unreal… I need them for about month when I get home to reset my body clock…that’s the great thing about them when you travel your Melatonin gets out of whack with different time zones so being on them 2weeks to a month before you go and same once there and then come off them for a long time like while travelling as we have for a couple of months…then start up again same time line before you had home and then take them again for up to 1month - 6 weeks to get your body clock recalibrated….😂 confusing to work out but it does help,,,

Wish I had known about this before I went on our first world trip in 2000….. it took me and I am not lying….took me 6 months to reset my body clock…there were other factors…. but the fast pace of that trip 23 countries in 28 days…was horrendous on the body clock…going from country to country on different time zones does crazy stuff to the poor old sleeping patterns, let alone the body…

Anyway everyone in Kitchener must be buying up 5mg Melatonin because I have only been able to access a couple of bottles…I know you can buy it online but honestly why it’s so tightly regulated in our country is a big ????, not sure why…considering it’s something the brain makes naturally but depletes with stress, illness, travel and age…🤔🤔🤔

Tim and Jess prepared a Korean dinner for us tonight…it was very tasty indeed…we wanted a new movie with Ryan Gosling called Grey Man a typical secret agent type pic…but killed the night…
Then I got a msg from Jill to say dad had called the Ambulance early hours this morning Aussie morning and asked to go to hospital you know he us really sick when this happens because he has had such an awful time last year with his wound etc he said he would nearly have to be dead to go….They have transferred him to Rocky base with ???? Kidney or his wound backing up because it hasn’t leaked for about 5 weeks now…

Since he has had Covid he has looked terrible and keeps saying every time we talk he wishes he could die.,.his colour has been very yellow and his eyes very sunken…I do feel it’s his kidneys as they have been slowly failing more and more over the last year…

Will have to wait to see what the tests reveal….Jill tried to get him straight to the Mater but so far no luck…it’s a weekend and she can’t contact Dr Wheatley until Monday…😢 I know his time is drawing nearer to going home to His Lord, just praying it won’t be dragged out with terrible health…like mums is now dragging out and it could be years before the Lord takes her home…it’s just so sad seeing parents age and the progression of their failing bodies or in mums case mind…I know God is in control of this, but still breaks your heart…Leia mais