Ron's working on it

We thought today would be discharge day but still battling excessive fluid retention - the Cardiac Ward Cardiologist Dr. Bernstein said we can't discharge someone with fat ankles. Back into Atrial fibrillation so changing meds again to try to correct that. This certainly has been an interesting and challenging experience.
I drive a different route to VGH every time and find Vancouver fascinating. I love history and wish I could have all these old houses talk to me.
As I drive up Arbutus St., there is a very old corner grocery store, now with seats out front for coffee. It runs into the back where the house must be 80+ years old. It cracks me up that they added a false front to make it look larger.
Just down the street there is a community garden and they even plant right out to the street with flowers. There is a large old stump in back with 13 brightly painted bird cages on it. I loved it.


The next surprise was very old railway tracks - probably the old 'inter-urban line' my mother often mentioned and I saw at the Burnaby Heritage Village. This looks positively ancient , has a well worn walking path going through it underneath the sign that says No Trespassing. This runs
down Arbutus St., across the road and sidewalk here and is where the "Victory Gardens' of vegetables were planted during WW2 on the right of way in some areas.