Showing posts with label coquitlam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coquitlam. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Friday, October 30, 2015
Dora Patricia Clarke
My mother, the woman that gave me, and my brothers Nick, and David, life; Dora Patricia Williams, Dora Patricia Erskine-Shaw, nee Dora Patricia Clarke died tonight just after 12 pm October 30,
She had acquired pneumonia, during radiation treatments, and as per her wishes, as the agony increased she refused the treatments being given to her. I was the last family member to see her alive, I had left the hospital at 10pm, lights out time; she was peaceful, but breathing rapidly and laboriously, which was probably putting great strain on her heart.
27 September 1938 Kidderminster, England - 30 October 2015 Port Moody, B.C.
She was orphaned, when young, with two other siblings Marie Bernadette Duggan, and Kevin Clarke; they will carry on life with the memory of Dora.
She married Andrew Erskine-Shaw, and had me, and then Nicholas "Nick". Sadly Andrew was killed in a car accident, which left Dora with two young boys to take care of; later she re-married to Brian Williams, they had two children, Jenny Williams, who died at age three of a faulty heart, and David who lives in the Slocan Valley.
Last October she moved into an apartment, and she was complaining then of a problem with her hip, it took numerous visits to the doctors, and the hospital, and numerous miss-diagnosis before she was diagnosed with kidney cancer, which had migrated to her hip. Her hip was rebuilt, and one kidney was removed, and further tests were done, culminating with the cancer being found in other parts of her body, and so a week of intensive radiation was prescribed, with more than a month of chemotherapy. Sadly the stress of all the radiation, and chemo lowered her resistance, and she caught pneumonia, which was not picked up by the medical staff in a timely manner, until we had to call an ambulance, when she was taken to Eagle Ridge Hospital, where the diagnosis of pneumonia was given, she rallied for a while, but lost her will to live a few days prior to her demise, just so much drugs, and poking, and prodding, and pain to deal with.
So hopefully she is at peace, and with her daughter Jenny, and her first husband, and true love Andrew.
Rest in Peace MOM
She had acquired pneumonia, during radiation treatments, and as per her wishes, as the agony increased she refused the treatments being given to her. I was the last family member to see her alive, I had left the hospital at 10pm, lights out time; she was peaceful, but breathing rapidly and laboriously, which was probably putting great strain on her heart.
27 September 1938 Kidderminster, England - 30 October 2015 Port Moody, B.C.
Dora in 2010 at the Vancouver Airport
Dora trying mate, for the first time in 2011
She was orphaned, when young, with two other siblings Marie Bernadette Duggan, and Kevin Clarke; they will carry on life with the memory of Dora.
She married Andrew Erskine-Shaw, and had me, and then Nicholas "Nick". Sadly Andrew was killed in a car accident, which left Dora with two young boys to take care of; later she re-married to Brian Williams, they had two children, Jenny Williams, who died at age three of a faulty heart, and David who lives in the Slocan Valley.
Last October she moved into an apartment, and she was complaining then of a problem with her hip, it took numerous visits to the doctors, and the hospital, and numerous miss-diagnosis before she was diagnosed with kidney cancer, which had migrated to her hip. Her hip was rebuilt, and one kidney was removed, and further tests were done, culminating with the cancer being found in other parts of her body, and so a week of intensive radiation was prescribed, with more than a month of chemotherapy. Sadly the stress of all the radiation, and chemo lowered her resistance, and she caught pneumonia, which was not picked up by the medical staff in a timely manner, until we had to call an ambulance, when she was taken to Eagle Ridge Hospital, where the diagnosis of pneumonia was given, she rallied for a while, but lost her will to live a few days prior to her demise, just so much drugs, and poking, and prodding, and pain to deal with.
So hopefully she is at peace, and with her daughter Jenny, and her first husband, and true love Andrew.
Rest in Peace MOM
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Lorquin's Admiral butterfly
I was able to get a few pics of a Lorquin's Admiral, Limenitis lorquini today. The little beast appeared to be be very sluggish, possibly near the end of its life. A beautiful butterfly they are though !
Monday, January 14, 2008
Riverview Hospital
Coquitlam council in the coming weeks, will designate the Riverview Hospital lands as a heritage site, giving them a slight bit of leeway in the plans that the present government has to place in excess of 10,000 people on the property, by selling it off to market housing. Something that was not in the cards as far as Coquitlam council was concerned.
Download the PDF document, that outlines why it should be included HERE.
Articles in the local Wednesday, January 23, 2008 newspapers. The NOW
And the, Tri-City News
Now we go for Provincial and Federal heritage designation.
The debates continue.....
Download the PDF document, that outlines why it should be included HERE.
Articles in the local Wednesday, January 23, 2008 newspapers. The NOW
And the, Tri-City News
Now we go for Provincial and Federal heritage designation.
The debates continue.....
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
A start at a real Web log
Links to many of my interests, along with many pictures will be placed here, in this digital parking lot,(read: Server) in space. I am a long time community volunteer, especially in the areas of the environment,(Fish &Tree hugger) and social change, lived in the Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam areas for most of my life,(since 1968). Just by wandering around the numerous blogs and websites that I have created you can get a sense of what I am about.
My favourite quote "Hypocrisy is the lubricant of political intercourse", which was stated in the British parliament, by a distant relative many years ago. Something that politicians continue to do to this day. The last few years I have been very active volunteering my time to save the Riverview Hospital site, for who it was intended, also volunteering with the patients themselves many of whom have fascinating stories to tell, and skills that many of us "Normal" folks do not have. They show great insights into what it is all about.......
My favourite quote "Hypocrisy is the lubricant of political intercourse", which was stated in the British parliament, by a distant relative many years ago. Something that politicians continue to do to this day. The last few years I have been very active volunteering my time to save the Riverview Hospital site, for who it was intended, also volunteering with the patients themselves many of whom have fascinating stories to tell, and skills that many of us "Normal" folks do not have. They show great insights into what it is all about.......
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