{Karlton Bontrager}

I decided on Monday to take part of the day off from Karlton-duty. I went for a drive on the Otago peninsula. It was a great day for it too, with beautiful weather. I stopped into a couple of shops as well as at the beach at which my parents had seen the yellow-eyed penguin. [...]

Read Full Post »

On Sunday, I decided to walk around Dunedin a bit before going in to see Karlton. I stopped in a few shops, including one that carried rugby jerseys that Karlton was interested in. At ISIS, Karlton was eating lunch when I arrived. I told him that I wanted to go for a drive down the [...]

Read Full Post »

Karlton was lazing around on Saturday when I found him. Although it had been sunny, by the time I made it to the hospital, it had become colder and drizzly. But I thought it might still be nice to go out for a drive. First, though, I told Karlton that I was going to start [...]

Read Full Post »

Friday was another eventful day for Karlton. I stopped by the Otago Museum in the morning. When I arrived at ISIS just before noon, both Holly and Pixie (from Queenstown) were visiting. It was a sunny day, so they sat outside (Karlton wearing his lovely striped sunglasses, of course) chatting. During this time, Karlton’s room [...]

Read Full Post »

When I arrived at ISIS on Thursday, Karlton was in the computer room emailing some friends. He wasn’t in a mood to do much of anything, which is just as well, as the previous day had been something of an eventful one. He told me that in physiotherapy, he had worked on his left arm [...]

Read Full Post »

Tuesday night, around 11:30, I received text messages from Karlton telling me that he was unable to fall asleep, despite feeling so tired. Around the same time, I later heard that there was an aurora australis, though unfortunately, neither of us saw it. On Wednesday, I arrived at ISIS quite late after having to run [...]

Read Full Post »

I forgot in my note on Monday to mention that Karlton went until after 6pm without his sling. Although on Tuesday, he ended up putting it on before noon again, this tells me that his shoulder muscles are slowly getting stronger! Tuesday morning was beautiful–sunny and warm. Karlton was to have an opthalmological appointment in [...]

Read Full Post »

Monday started out fairly slowly around the ward. Karlton did not have a physiotherapy session; his usual PT is on vacation for the week, and the replacement had not yet set a schedule with Karlton. However, he is expected to have physiotherapy for the rest of the week. At lunch time, Karlton informed me that [...]

Read Full Post »

Because he’d stayed up until almost midnight on Friday night, we expected Karlton to have slept in on Saturday. Not so! When Mom and I went to pick him up for the trip to the airport, he said he’d awoken at the usual time. I drove the three of us to the airport, reminding Karlton [...]

Read Full Post »

It’s been a little while since an update has been written, mainly because it’s been pretty busy here. I arrived in New Zealand on Wednesday, the 25th of September. It was a great surprise to have Karlton at the airport to meet me. We then went with Mom to lunch at a Japanese restaurant, where [...]

Read Full Post »