Can’t wait for tomorrow
Can’t wait for the future
when there won’t be no sorrow
no sorrow no more.

Why sing about lovers lost
or summer dreams ended
in the fields of gold

Why sing about getting old
or growing apart
in your castle to last

Why sing about pain in the past
Can’t wait for the future
When there won’t be no sorrow
no sorrow no more

When there will be
Just carefree joy of life

Things are happening. The effort Pádraig is making causes red patches to appear all over his upper body, so much so that last night the nurse got worried thinking that he might have an allergy. He doesn’t. He is just trying so hard. He moved his right arm up again today, not very far, but very clearly, a few times, and when we asked him to do so. The arm came back down when we asked him to relax.  None of this is a major break through, and the progress is really tiny. But the joy we are feeling is no tiny at all. There will be set backs again. But these days, Pádraig is doing well. Very visibly trying. And you know what happens when he is trying really hard.

It had happened before. That the plastic tube got disconnected from his trachea and with it the oxygen. In Beaumont. Not to worry, we were told. Didn’t do any harm. Easily reconnected. Today, though, no accident. Purpose. No oxygen. No tube connected to the trachea. Another first.

More friends coming over the weekend. No one here can believe this. From Ireland? Irish music is taking over. Kila and Colm are playing (we finally got a CD player going in his room), youtube got a competitor, waiting for the Bonnymen to arrive!

Check out the events on http://www.caringforpadraig.org – non-stop swimming is coming up: swimming a mile with Ireland’s best swimmers in TCD, swimming a mile with Ireland’s newest master swimmers, swimming off the coast of each Irish county with a coast!

And then, the Dublin Women’s Mini Marathon, and the Hamburg Marathon.

Time, Pádraig, to get up, to swim, to run, to have fun. Right?

Today’s German Music Tip
Konstantin Wecker, Empört Euch (17 Oct 2011). Something like a new Brecht-Song, though the music is ‘nicer’ than Weil’s:)
What’s hot
Swimming
What’s cold
Looking back
The German word/phrase/verse of the day
Das kann doch gar nicht sein, oder?
“Wir zahlen Steuern und sie setzen ab”
“Empört Euch, gehört Euch, und liebt Euch, und widersteht!”

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