Not sure how many of you heard about Oscar the cat, I heard about this from another Ex-pat in Hong Kong and then I saw it on a news video-cast Erica and I were watching. Apparently, this cat lives at a nursing home in Rhode Island and he seems to know when a resident is gonna kick the bucket. Here, I’ll let you read it for yourself;
“This cat really seems to know when patients are about to die,” says Dr David Dosa, a geriatrician at Rhode Island hospital who also attends patients at Steere House.“We started to see something was happening about 18 months ago and at first I think we were all very sceptical. But it’s not an unusual occurrence for patients to die here, so we’ve had plenty of opportunities to witness and observe the phenomenon.
“The first signals come as early as two days beforehand, when Oscar leaves his usual favourite solitary spots under a doctor’s desk or sunbathing in the windows of an empty office and begins doing his rounds, padding round the corridors of the unit, visiting patients but never lingering.
“When somebody’s not ready to die, he leaves,” says Dr Dosa. “He doesn’t settle in their room until the day they die. Sometimes it can be as much as four hours beforehand, but he’s universally there, curled up on their bed, two hours before they take their last breath.”
All I’ve got to say it, next time a cat snuggles up to me - I’m gonna get a little nervous!
We are back home from Hong Kong, my favorite city. We had a great time, but were VERY busy the whole time we were there - time sure did fly by!
Speaking of time flying by, we are headed back to America for several months very soon. All of a sudden, the time we have left here in Asia before going back to America seems very, very short! I’ve got alot of things to get done! BTW, Erica and I had our language tested to see if we had reached a “level 3″ on a 5 level scale. This has been our goal for language study for the past few years. Eventually we’d like to get to a level 4, level 5 is for native speakers, and with the strong dialect(s) where we live, I’m not even convinced very many of the locals here would test at a level 5! So our next goal is level 4…
Okay, this is a bit random and totally crazy - but for any Westerner who’s ever spent any significant amount of time in China, the whole “Asian” squat is a real issue! (This is light-hearted - don’t take it seriously!)
Published by Steve at July 21, 2007
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Yesterday (July 20th) was Erica’s birthday.
We celebrated Erica’s birthday in Hong Kong, allowing us to enjoy some great food and desert!
Fun was had by everybody!
Even Dad made it into the photos!
Erica often makes fun of me for being so “old” - but now she is catching up to me (since to her, everything over 30 is ancient!) She is rapidly approaching “ancient” status!
Erica commented that this is her third birthday since becoming a mom. It completely changes things, but in a good way.
I took this photo about a week ago at a park near our home in Hunan, China. While I was taking the photos, a man was watching me and looking at each photo after I shot it. He commented to me, “The photo does not look the same as what my eyes are seeing.”
You see, in reality, the sky was very dark as the sun had been down for almost an hour at that point. By using a long exposure time when taking this photo, the camera was able to “see” the color in the sky that was there, but our eyes could not see.
Sometimes I think that is how God must be when he looks at us - He sees what is really there, but we cannot always see it. I desire to see people through God’s eyes so that I might look beyond what my eyes can see to what God sees This is sometimes hard to do, especially when you live in a ‘foreign’ country where aesthetics and hygene are a little bit different from what you are used to…
Isaiah 11:3-4 He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
Growing up, I loved the 4th of July. It was one of my favorite holidays because it always involved our family having alot of fun together. Often we would go to the beach during the day, swim, eat, all the fun stuff and then in the evening we’d have a cook out with burgers and watermelon and all that goes along with that.
The the fireworks. This was usually a combo of watching some large display of fireworks somewhere around town and ALSO our own little display in the back yard.
Since moving overseas, the whole “4th of July” holiday has a completely different feel. We still try and make it a special day by enjoying some of our favorite, and sometimes difficult to obtain, ‘American’ delights. I hope that our children will grow up loving this holiday like I did, but I have a feeling it’s just not going to be the same.
Happy 4th!
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Not sure how many of you heard about Oscar the cat, I heard about this from another Ex-pat in Hong Kong and then I saw it on a news video-cast Erica and I were watching. Apparently, this cat lives at a nursing home in Rhode Island and he seems to know when a resident is gonna kick the bucket. Here, I’ll let you read it for yourself;
We celebrated Erica’s birthday in Hong Kong, allowing us to enjoy some great food and desert!
Hi! I'm Steve Webel and this is my blog. Thanks for stopping by!
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