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1990s 2000s 2010s 2020 Carer Health and Medicine Marfan Medical

Trenna’s Heart Valve Replacement – Part 2

It was maybe 8pm by the time we got word that Andrew Hodge was on his way. The team of doctors and nurses that were now constantly surrounding Trenna started moving her bed to the lifts to take her to … Read the rest ... “Trenna’s Heart Valve Replacement – Part 2”

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1980s 1990s Carer Health and Medicine Marfan Medical

Trenna’s Heart Valve Replacement – Part 1

By Greg

I thought some readers of this site may find this story interesting. In it I tell you about Trenna’s surgery to have her aortic heart valve and ascending aorta replaced. I intended it to be a stand alone story, but it turns out the memories of those times are still pretty clear in my mind, and a lot happened, so, here is Part 1 of what has turned out to be a two part story of medical success … Read the rest ... “Trenna’s Heart Valve Replacement – Part 1”

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1990s iPad Knowledge Snippets and Vignettes Writing

1991

Trenna’s Diary Summaries From Her iPad (with photos)

Intro and extra clarifications by Greg, the rest by Tren

As I’ve said previously … In Trenna’s iPad she has written summaries of each year. As you will see from what she has written she has gleaned the information retrospectively from a wide range of sources.
As I reproduce them on this site I’ll take the opportunity to clarify and expand on some of the stories. Trenna wrote these summaries (and there Read the rest ... “1991”

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1980s Love and Marriage Marfan

Engagement and Wedding

By Greg

My four-part series on The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg received a lot of positive feedback, so I thought I would follow it up with the tale of how we got engaged and then married. Well, actually it didn’t really get much feedback, but I liked it, so wanted to tell the rest of the story.

You can also read a little about it in the post The Newlywed Diary.

There are tales to tell in … Read the rest ... “Engagement and Wedding”

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1980s Music Snippets and Vignettes

Eric Bogle and Slim Dusty – Two Concerts We Remembered

By Greg

Slim

We were always going to feel a little uncomfortable in this environment. But I felt it was something we had to do – and Trenna was prepared to go along to prove that I was wrong!

It was a Slim Dusty concert at the Perth Concert Hall.

I cast my mind back to our house a month or two earlier.

“Hey, Tren. Slim Dusty is doing a concert at the Concert Hall”.

“So?” Those two letters were … Read the rest ... “Eric Bogle and Slim Dusty – Two Concerts We Remembered”

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1980s Heart and Lung Failure iPad Knowledge Love and Marriage Marfan Snippets and Vignettes

1988

Trenna’s Diary Summaries From Her iPad

Introduction

In Trenna’s iPad she has written summaries of each year. As you will see from what she has written she has gleaned the information retrospectively from a wide range of sources.

As I reproduce them on this site I’ll take the opportunity to clarify and expand on some of the stories. Trenna wrote these summaries (and there are many of them) to help her and I recall our many experiences. It was probably … Read the rest ... “1988”

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1980s The USA Travel Diaries Travel Writing

The USA Trip Diary – Part 2

The Diary Commences

By Trenna

The USA Travel Diary series starts HERE.

[GM:  Just so you know. In this series Trenna does mention spending the night with a man … a few times.  Nothing explicit is mentioned.]

[GM: at the start of the “My Trip” diary that Trenna was using it had a section for “En Route”.  These are the entries written there.]

En Route/Going There

20/10/81

Left Perth Airport at approximately 12 midnight, about six hours late. First … Read the rest ... “The USA Trip Diary – Part 2”

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1980s Love and Marriage Snippets and Vignettes

The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg – Part 2

Part 1 of this series is here.

Slow Progress

By Greg

Postscript to Part 1

Trenna had apparently shunned me at the end of our first date, yet she said she was fine with me calling her?

I replayed the evening over and over in my mind. It had seemed to go so well. The conversation had flowed so easily. And through pure chance I had brought her favourite wine to take to the restaurant.

Apart from the end, the … Read the rest ... “The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg – Part 2”