Auntie Ruby can move back!

Auntie Ruby can move back to the Colonel Belcher Veteran's Hospital! Here are some of the details taken from an email sent by Leonard Saunders:

Hi Everyone!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that you will have a joyous New Year! We had a Christmas miracle ourselves. I received word today from Ruth Cox that a bed was now available for Ruby on the Veteran's side of the Colonel Belcher Care Center. She will be able to move on January 3, 2007. Arrangements are now being made made to facilitate her transfer. Ruth has also notified Hazel and Valerie about the upcoming move. She will be located on the second floor in Vimy. Isn't that awesome as her dad was a Vimy Ridge veteran. Maybe he is her guardian angel and was looking out for her. She will be in room 11.

Ruth was very pleased that Ruby will now have a place at the Veteran's Hospital. (She advocated to have Ruby stay at the beginning of this.) Thanks to all of you for your active support on Ruby's behalf. On Wednesday, December 27, Ruby was asked where she would be happiest and she said she was a Veteran and preferred to be at the Colonel Belcher Veteran's Hospital, so she now has her wish. She also had told me this before so her wish hadn't changed.

Thanks again to all of you that took the time to write, phone, and arrange appointments to visit your MLA's. You are great political activists. Congratulations on your fine work!

My hope is that Veteran's Affairs and the Alberta Health Region will rethink some of their policies to make them more compassionate. The elderly are just as deserving of compassionate treatement and medical care as any other segment of the population. Maybe this will happen as a result of MP's and MLA's being more aware of their policies and their effects upon Veteran's as well as how the Regional Health Policies are affecting the citizens of this province.

Thanks again for all that you have done and all the best to you in the New Year!

Len