Document Request: 2002 Letter from Gillian Ada to Tim Richardson
Document Description: Gillian Ada recounts stories of the Ada family
Transcription URL: https://ada.surnametree.com/library/vdocs/D_74#74
Document Transcription:As from
38 Campbell Street
Gainsborough
Lincs DN21 2BH
Jan 21st
Dear Tim,
You will be wondering why you have not heard from me to thank you for your Christmas greetings and other correspondence especially the photographs.
The reason is that since the 26th I have been in hospital, three different hospitals and five different wards! I have hardly known from day to day where I would be. Anyhow all mail has been delivered by a friend, [Jean/Leon], who also keeps an eye on me when I am at home
I have been well cared for and visited. I kept myself busy with writing (I am now up to date) reading & cross-word puzzles. I keep my brain going!
At 10:30pm on Boxing Day I had a fall & spent the night trying to get comfortable by sleeping on the floor, but to no effect - At 5:15 am as I could not get up I rang my friend [—-] who gets up to go to work at 5:15 & told him the siyuation. He was actually awake watching the Cricket in TV from New Zealand. He [& three others] came over, got me up and ordered the ambulance & in no time I was in Lincoln County Hospital. After a brain scan there [revealed] I had a [morner] (non-malignant) on the brain I was [sent] to the Hallamshire Royal at Sheffield where [thre] agreed not to do [anything] which would only make matters worse. Then taken again to Lincolnshire (diferent wards), now I am in the local hospital but move on again on Monday (Feb 13) to a local respite home for two weeks before I return to 38. The doctors hope that with the support equipment I shall be able to cope on my own.
The [main] [traller] is that the [Incram] makes me truly sleepy - that has been coming on for some time & this does not help. I have little pain but usually a loud sounding noise (like [igo again]) in my head - not painful but irritating.
Thank you so much for all the family information. I am glad
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that our meeting has nonetheless so much satisfaction “don’t [ anles ]” - I have not taken it all in at the moment but will be doing so - The photo [gig dow] you all looking [sey] fit I thought [ se lady at last] was [not walki] myself [& day] and of [my] Ada [its] regards Uncle Arthur (Zeebriugge) I think my Cousin Dorothy told me he was actually buried in Maidenhead (family home) cemetery - She had been with a church group over the War Graves Commission place in Maidenhead [there] [Abto abed mends] me [kept] I would [imagine] that his medals would have been passed [on] to [his] [foassen] family - What an amazing thing the internet is - & all has [arisen] from George accidentally finding the son of one of my pupils on it!
I [believe] you may know from George that a branch of the Ada family is living in Red Deer [&] Sylvan Lake Albera - [nor ther] outside Edmonton - I had one lovely photograph of some [char naydrel] miniature donkeys (3ft high) which one of my cousins [breeds] & I hear often from her mother Sylvia Ada & My uncle [Will] Ada was a leading light in the Canadian (British) Legion & had a special Legion funeral service. I have a photograph of his head stone.
I am glad to know that your [Father’s] health has improved. Please give him my best wishes for further progress. I look forward to further contact with you if all goes well with one Great Grandmother should still be on my sideboard keeping watch! Please give my regards to your wife & daughter - I hope all is well with you all . Now I will get a little sleep. I have written five letters todayso that is not bad and entertained my friends from [Brrouth] It was a [lovely sunny] day after a cold one with a [fair play of Shas]
Goodbye for the present. Thanks again.
Kindest regards best wishes from
Gillian
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