Categories
1960s 1970s 1990s 2000s Craig House Kitchen Tapes Travel

Floor 7 1/2

… and Trenna’s Voice, Recording Kitchen Tape No. 8

By Greg, and then Trenna’s own voice

The popular-culturally literate among you will immediately be thinking “Being John Malkovich“.

What’s this got to do with Trenna?

Well….

I have decided that in most cases I’m NOT going to put the original sound recordings on this website – at least for now.

However, I thought I should put up at least one, to provide an idea of what the original … Read the rest ... “Floor 7 1/2”

Categories
2010s Travel

Andy Warhol

By Greg

I started to watch The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix last night. It reminded me of two instances when the great artist and the great woman connected…….

Trenna at the Western Australian Art Gallery – 16 December 2012.

Starring Helen and Trenna. Melbourne 2016.

Categories
Carer Collected Wisdom Coping Featured Marfan Medical Travel

Marfan and Other Chronic Conditions – Things That Worked for Trenna

by Greg

A Need to Cope with Life

This is a list of some of the strategies Trenna adopted to try to cope with life and her many medical issues. She didn’t have a specific list of these items. This is just the things I remember us trying.

I’m expecting (hoping?) that this post might be helpful to people living with chronic disease, and their carers. But of course everyone’s situation is different.

For most of her life she was … Read the rest ... “Marfan and Other Chronic Conditions – Things That Worked for Trenna”

Categories
2010s Coping Featured Love and Marriage Marfan Medical Travel Visually Impaired

The Wellington Earthquake

By Greg

Business Class Travel – It’s Not For Everyone

In November 2016 my then employer, Advocare Inc, gave me the opportunity to go to a mediation conference in Wellington, New Zealand.

Travel was becoming increasingly difficult for Trenna. Her eyesight was very bad and her pain management was not going well. We knew that the long flight from Perth in Western Australia to Auckland and then down to Wellington would take its toll.

On the other hand it really … Read the rest ... “The Wellington Earthquake”