First, as my previous blogs indicated, from the end of July until the end of August, I was very busy assisting my friend who was struggling with stage 4 breast cancer. Myself and two close friends were able to help her to come home from the hospital for a week so that she could spend time with her husband and dogs. On Friday, August 13th her needs became such that she was transported to a Port Moody Hospice where, embraced by her loving husband, she passed away peacefully and quietly on Sunday, August 15th. The following weeks have been a whirlwind of activity with helping to plan her memorial and helping her husband as best as we can.
In the meantime, I've been extremely busy at work with a number of very exciting projects. Most of my time has been taken up with creation of two new blogs for BC Children's Hospital; one is the BC Children's Hospital Family Centred Care Courier News Blog which is public and the other is a private member blog for the volunteer group I manage, The Partners in Care Family Advisory. As part of the social media aspect of the blogs I also created a Facebook Page and Twitter account.
Just last week, the Provincial Government released the funding for the new BC Children's Hospital that will be built over the next 5 - 10 years. This has resulted in some changes to my job as a good deal of my time will be taken up with finding volunteer families who can provide the "family voice" and feedback. The changes have already come into effect as evidenced by the fact that I'm working full-time this week on new hospital planning.
In July, I also made some decisions about where I was going with my writing and home business. I started by creating two new blogs; the setting up and populating of these has not left me a lot of time to write here. You may wish to check them out:
This blog details life in our Arts and Crafts New Westminster Bungalow & features local information related to the Arts & Crafts movement, etc.
This blog is a resource of websites and events that I have found in some of my internet searchs; it will serve as a great resource for people interested in Arts & Crafts style & architecture.
Wilde Tide Press, my publishing company and new website which will feature Forever Special Friends, is not yet up and running but it's my hope that between everything else I'll have it finished by the beginning of November. Add into all of this mix the photography website I'm helping set up for my daughter, my agreement to set up another website for a friend in exchange for a piece of custom furniture, the creation of a new website for the Federation of BC Writers AND last but not least the presentation I'm preparing for a Winnipeg medical conference called "All a'Twitter--using branding, blogging and social media to connect families and staff", and you can see I have a ton on my plate. I'll try to keep up with Wilde Tide but if you don't hear from me for awhile, at least you'll know why!
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