Miscellaneous Restart

Well, I'm here to try my hand at blogging again. I note that my last post is dated 9/19/08. That seems like a long time ago, and I guess it is for those of us who's time seems to go slower than it used to. I don't offer any big reasons, although my health and accompanying circumstances certainly fit in there somewhere. I have been through many tests again since my last post, and still cannot report any significant findings. More are on the way at some point soon, but I don't know that yet either. I'm pretty much resigned to needing to use a walker most of the time and a cane at times. I still try to walk around the house w/o either sometimes, but am not very sure of myself that way.

We had planned to be in Brunswick, OH right now, but due to the above mentioned health conditions we decided not to go. That meant several things - canceling our flight reservations, adjusting our emotions, and most of all missing out on seeing part of our family. Gordon and Chris' five grown-ups were all there, including Lisa who's attending Cornell University Medical School, Stephen who's attending Akron University, Laura who's attending Ohio University in Athens, OH, and the two still at home, Dan a high school senior and Becca a high school freshman. It may be awhile before we are able to see some of them any time soon. In addition we were to be at Carol & Donald's going to and coming from Ohio. That would have meant seeing them plus their two daughters and one son-in-law and two of our 3, (four to be) great grandsons. It seems like a lot to give up, but things since our trip would have started have verified our decision. Besides the health issues at stake, they have had many, many inches of snow in Ohio, including about 10-12 inches the day we would have arrived. I'm sure the Lord had a hand in keeping us at home. Little did we know what was in our path for those days. Anyway, I'm quite glad to be at home, safe and warm in our comfy duplex.

I don't want to get too long with this first again post, so I'll just conclude that I appreciate reading the blogs I check on most every day. Some of you readers will get an email to let you know I'm back at it again, since I assume that you have decided it wasn't worth checking my site anymore. So I'm still

Pilgrim on the way