Easter.

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Linda Schaub

I kind of eased into my Easter Sunday morning.  The weather forecasters had predicted a very early rain which would sog up sunrise services and cast a drizzly pall on the morn so I didn’t set my alarm.  However, I woke up right at 6:00 a.m. and donned my radio headphones to catch the Warren Pierce Show which was chock- full of Easter tidbits, including Irving Berlin’s “Easter Bonnet Song” and a treasure trove of historical facts and figures about Easter and Passover.   I languished in bed the full two hours of the show, before getting up.  Still no rain so I chastised myself for not getting up earlier to get a good walk in, but so be it.  I got suited up and got about a mile done before it started to drizzle, and of course, being made of sugar, like most of the Easter candy, I beat a hasty reTREAT home.  I just got into the house and it started to pour.  So, let’s blame the weathermen who laid a collective egg and put a damper on Easter Sunday; I am not blaming their superior for this less-than EGGS-ellent weather.  Enough of the puns.  Unfortunately, the rain probably prohibited people from hiding their treats and trinkets on the ground, (which surely doesn’t look like Easter grass), or in their usual hidey-holes. Thankfully, Easter Sunday will be April 20th next year and hopefully warmer and sunnier for sure.  Sigh. If the weather could be picture-perfect for just a handful of holidays, I’d hope it would be warm and sunny for a glorious Easter Sunday, clear and hopefully bright and not humid (ugh) on the 4th of July for the many parades and picnic activities.  We can only hope for  clear and dry, albeit cold climes, on Thanksgiving for safe travelling weather so all family members may gather and rejoice in the ambiance on this holiday.  Finally, how about just enough snow to make it a white Christmas?   Meanwhile, out of the corner of my eye while writing this passage, I am glancing at the only Easter decoration I put out this year,  a very old Whitman’s chocolate plastic egg with Snoopy the Easter Beagle climbing out of the top, his head crowned with Easter grass.  My mom bought me this Easter treat decades ago and I deemed it too cute to open.  It makes me grin.  She quit buying me chocolate bunnies as I hated to break them and would put them in the fridge for months for safekeeping.  Sometimes she would accidentally, on purpose, drop it on the floor thus proclaiming it was now time to devour the chocolate bunny which had shattered within its gaily-wrapped and beribboned wrapper.  It is good to have warm holiday memories.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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4 Responses to Easter.

  1. susieshy45's avatar susieshy45 says:
    June 3, 2018 at 9:47 am

    That is a really sweet memory.
    Susie

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar lindasschaub says:
      June 3, 2018 at 10:29 pm

      Thanks Susie – I had to go back and read it and see what it said. I had a picture of a Snoopy sitting with a chocolate egg and eggs inside and it is missing for some reason??? I thought maybe that was the post when I talked about Easter 2009. It changed my life forever. My mom and I always took Good Friday and Easter Monday as two extra vacation days – we don’t get that holiday off here in the U.S. (in Canada they do or used to). Anyway, on Easter Saturday, my mom had a doctor’s appointment and I took her there and we had a few more errands before going home. My mother was on a diuretic and had to go home to go to the bathroom, so I left her there and went out on two errands – I returned home about 45 minutes later and she was slumped in a chair and said she had gotten dizzy and collapsed into the chair. She was shaking and afraid to move. My mom was hit by a car at age 11, spent four years in a pediatric hospital, and had 42 orthopedic operations in her lifetime. She was deathly afraid of falling as she had a hip replacement in 1981 and it came lose at the stem (unusual, most come loose at the ball and socket joint) and it had to be replaced in 1990. It was called a “hip revision” and involved building up the area with bone from a bone bank. She was told if she fell, she would be in a wheelchair the rest of her life. I still think my mom had a mild stroke or maybe a TIA because there were many things that were different after that. But, what was scary as she wanted me to take her down the hall to her room as she was afraid to walk, even with her cane. She went to bed immediately, not removing her clothes and did not want to get up for two days. Not like my mom – always in pain, but always on her feet. And she shooed me away and got angry for asking if she was okay. She slept all through Easter. Would not let me call to have an ambulance come (she was unsteady on her feet) … finally she agreed to go to the E.R. Monday when she felt a little better. We were there for 12 hours – until midnight and they found nothing except being dehydrated. She was never the same after that – continuing dizziness and passed away from a perforated colon in January 2010. Easter is always a sad reminder of that weekend.

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      • susieshy45's avatar susieshy45 says:
        June 4, 2018 at 12:01 am

        Oh Linda, that is a sad memory. I am so sorry. Glad you told me though. I remember my grandmother was on a diuretic and had to be admitted in hospital for many days because of electrolyte imbalance. Electrolyte imbalances are life threatening and can damage the brain because the dysfunction between electrolytes causes different nerve impulses to be conducted rather than what should. Imagine if the electrolyte imbalance is undetected for a while even a few hours. The body will go into massive issues. I would advise older people against taking diuretics.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar lindasschaub says:
        June 4, 2018 at 7:16 am

        Thanks Susie – I had to look because I did tell the story, later though. This was the first year of my blog … I wrote one paragraph and not always a picture. In this case I had a picture but it disappeared … I still have that Snoopy on my dresser. My mom had an electrolyte imibalance happen many years ago when she was on Lasix … they switched her to a lower, milder diuretic and can’t think of the name, but that lower dosage was better for her, but she had edema and much leg swelling so was on a diuretic all the time. Year ago, she woke up one morning, said everything was spinning around her. It was just us and I was scared – managed to get her stable enough to stand up and go down the three steps and out to the car. They gave her saline bags (two) that day years ago and said it was the Lasix. It was very scary – this was worse. They told her to eat more potassium to counter-act the diuretic and help thwart an electrolyte imbalance. My grandmother was also on diuretics, but was on Slo-K (spelling?) but doctor didn’t want my mom on that as she was on Nitro for her heart flutters, thyroid medication, Motrin, Nexium and also a daily dose of antibiotic for her cellulitis to keep the flare-ups at bay.

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