Going South

I guess after exactly a one month "vacation" from doing a post its time that I got back into that again. I have finished some of my commitments in the little wood shop and have "closed" the shop for a couple of weeks. We're going south.

"Going south" is as we know a phrase that describes a deteriorating condition of some sort. That's not what this blog is about - at least that's what I hope. Rather its about taking another trip south, and west, to Arizona, to the valley of the sun. That's just what one needs this time of year, huh. Well its not for the weather we're going there but rather this time its for something we hope will prove to be helpful.

This trip is for a visit to the Phoenix Neurological Associates. This group of neurologists have a clinic that specializes in every kind of nerve disease one can imagine. I hope to be able to learn what has been causing my increasing weakness and hopefully find some answers that will be helpful. While I'm optomistic I'm also aware that the tests and consultations there may not produce the results I desire. I guess we'll see.

The picture above was taken when our oldest son and four of their five children visited us a few weeks ago. Gordon's wife Chris is a practicing family physican in Ohio and was a source of some helpful consultation while here. Her suggestions and ideas have proven to be helpful along the way. Chris is a very fine doctor and also a very much loved and respected member of our family. Gordon is a physical therapist so his council and suggestions along the way have also been quite helpful.

We will be staying with our daughter again and we will enjoy being there with her husband and family. They only have one daughter living at home anymore and she is in high school so we will probably see her a limited amount of time. And since Brad and Lynne have their own business to run we will have a lot of time to do "whatever" during most of the time there. Its only a guess as to how many visits I will have to the clinic. We're only planning to be there a couple of weeks so there may not be many.


And so it is that I remain

Pilgrim on the way