Here are some memories written by Mom's good friend Eileen Maresh, who worked in the lab with her in Valley City and also took care of Mom at our house during the day (in shifts with others) after Mom came home from the hospital in 1989.
Everyone remembers Diane's perfect penmanship and how she could fit everything on the little lines that were on the lab slips when the rest of us would take at least 2..
One day Diane and I were working early shift..I thought something looked different, but couldn't figure it out.
About 2 hours later it hit me--her wig was on backwards! We laughed about it all day, but then I had my sweater on wrong side out and no one told me until 2:00.
Glenny and I took Diane out for coffee. We got her back in the car and Glenny bumped the automatic locks locking Diane in the car and Glenny and I were standing outside. After alot of coaxing Diane got the lock undone, but what was really funny Glenny hadn't closed the backend of her Suburban tight so we could have just crawled in that way. All of this happened on our way home.
When we first got to Kenny's (Restaurant) we had Diane in her wheelchair and a gust of wind blew her down the frontage road with us chasing after her.
One of my most favorite things is the day I asked the girls if they had all the stuff they needed for school as I had made a couple of trips to school with stuff. We were going through the list and Kati asked me how come I knew to ask about that stuff.
Kari looked at her and said, "Experience!"
How about the time the twins made salads with rhubarb leaves and had to have their stomachs cleaned out and how they wouldn't eat anything green forever...do they now?? (Ed. note from Solveig - this was Kati, not both twins. Kati does eat green things now! :-)
I hope this helps out a bit..We all loved working with Diane and she was like a little detective when working in Bacti.
Eileen
