Bleak week – but could have been much much worse…

Prompted by the kindly comment from Iowa – we have bad news and good news –
Carolyn decided to rent a car and do a week of touring around the countryside, she planned to visit Sopron, lake Balaton… well, she had the most horrific car crash
on the afternoon of her first day. All her newly made friends here, in Kiskassa,
with us were shocked and terribly upset. Anyhow, she was airlifted by helicopter
to the university hospital in Pecs, was operated on… on the first day we were told, her chance of survival was only 40%... well, the good news is, that she is now breathing
on her own, and talks to her sister Jeane, who arrived. She also recognised me and talked to me, though I couldn’t understand across all that high-tec equipment… she is still in intensive care, and probably terribly uncomfortable, but – and we keep our fingers crossed – there is more and more improvement and hope for decent recovery.
So now you know… our worst week here… Alan had a painful viral infection –
probably the stress about Carolyn worked its way into his insides… anyway,
the sun is out after three days of real and metaphorical gloom, Carolyn is hopefully on the mend, Alan is back to normal – even done the dishes without prompting (oops – that’s not normal…) still no goat-kids – but we re-calculated – no chance till mid-april really… the rescued hens are doing fine, enjoying themselves so much that forgot to lay eggs… (we have one/day) well, adjusting to a world with sunshine and dark nights takes time… (Eva) p.s. Alan is thinking to buy a very environmentally unfriendly thing like a Toyota land cruiser – we are frightened of little cars now…
besides those are very cheap second hand – nobody wants them, because of the
large petrol consumption – but we’d only use the thing at most once a week –
we need it big to carry animal food/building materials, and we can go on untarmacked roads to Boly to the shops when we need to and that is only cca 5 miles. Well, we’ll see… pp.s. greatings to freerangereggs.blogspot.com wow - Southern Australia!!