Many have asked about sending something to Rob. We know that this will be a long slow recovery, and have been thinking to the future. Currently we have an extra small room on the ground floor that we call the “winkel”. It is the former shop that they sold the bread at from the bakery that was made here for about 350 years.
I am working on a project to transform the “winkel” into an accesible shower/sitting area (it’s Rob’s favourite place to read the newspaper). As you can see from the photo’s below, the “winkel” needed a lot of work!
Rob’s wonderful sister Anne helped me start out the project by buying Rob a really cool shower with water jets. From there it has become a real project with my brother Santi helping me pick out tiles and our good friend Peter who is a builder and helped me to lay it all out along with doing all the work on it. Because of time, I will be limited to sanding and painting, which I am really looking forward to (really!).
I want to especially thank Dave and Ruth (Ellyn’s parents) for giving us the money to do the building work for this project. I’ll be trying to pay them back as I can, but I absolutely know this would not have been possible without their help. Just buying all the materials broke my piggy bank!
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Total Donations
€1350 EURDonor Recognition Wall
I want to thank you all for your very kind and generous donations. Some have donated in person, and others on-line, but nobody wrote on the recognition wall!
- Dave & Ruth Larson
- Anne & Mick Struebel
- Santikaro Larson & Jo Marie Thompson
- Tom, Luke & Oliver Struebel
- Sue Bender
- Joost & Marja Verhoof
- Dave & Sandy Bender
- Mike Larson & Linda Schwartz
- Peter Kaagman & Bea Oostens (for all the extra’s Peter is doing while building the “winkel”)
- Paul & Jean Bender
- Dorette, Joost, Kiki, & Jimmy Dings
- Caro, Martin, Jacques & Max-Martin Wenger-Sherrie
- Jimmy Toohey
- Claire & Simon Quinn and Martin Rees
- Anneloes, Rob & Koen Vermeer (for all the help with Jansen and many other things to make this all a bit easier)
Dorette, Joost, Kiki, Jimmy (€50.00 EUR) Says:
Aug 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Caro (€20.00 EUR) Says:
Aug 27, 2009 at 11:30 am
Sue Says:
Jul 27, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Want to send some Music to Rob?
Rob has an iPod that my brother Mike kindly gave him as a gift. I have been loading it up with his favourite tunes, pictures and some audio books. If you would like to send him music using an iTunes Gift Certificate I’m sure he would really appreciate it. Please use my e-mail address elarson”@”pitlarson.com.
hi ellyn and rob,
It was lovely to hear from you i tried to send you a text when claire visited but it wouldnt accept.
glad you had a good birthday and it sounds as if rob is on his way to a long recovery,but it doesnt matter how long as long as he gets better AND HE WILL you are a lovely couple and both curil and i wish you both all the best and to rob a speedy recovery lots of love cyril and kath xxxx
We’ve been following your updates regularly & have been thinking about you often. There’s nothing so draining as being at the hospital whether patient or partner/caregiver. So Paul (the techie of the 2 of us) finally went on your site but had some problems so didn’t end up leaving a note. (His excuse was Sue didn’t either–they both have empty spaces by their names!) So here are our wishes for Rob getting out of the hospital soon (if you can call 8+ weeks soon) so you both can get back to enjoying life with each other.
Dear Rob & Ellie,
Best, best wishes for a recovery that brings you both good health and happiness for the next 50 years (and beyond).
Lanie & Damon
We, Tom, Luke & Oliver have just donated 50 euroos to Uncle Rob’s “winkel” project. Mum did not tick the recognition box so therefore we decided to leave this reply! Good luck!
Hi Ellen,
Funny you should mention that. Rob received a super-duper iPod as a gift from my brother Mike. I have started to download a lot of music and also a few audio books. It’s nice to have the links in Dutch where I can find more, because the Apple store mostly has English books.
Regards,
Ellyn
Dear Ellyn,
I have read your blog en was shocked about what Robert and You had to go through. It made me realize that the days must be awfully long for Robert. I was thinking that maybe ebooks (luisterboeken) could be a way to alleviate this (http://www.biblioo.nl/, http://www.luisterrijk.nl/ )
Sterkte, Ellen