It has been a while since I updated my blog, probably because I thought we were nearer the end of reportable events. As it turns out, however, things kept happening that totally consumed us.
Earlier, this year, we got involved with a new Center of Excellence (CoE) for GBS in Columbus at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center. After two visits, our Dr rediagnosed me as having a different type of GBS than I was being treated for.
All is fine, but it may take a “bit longer” to recover from this type (AmSan) than from the Miller Fisher variety. After all, I’ve only been at this a few years.
By most other measures, this has, however, been an eventful year! In brief, I had a kidney stone that gave us a lot of trouble, then I was diagnosed with cancer and went through a treatment plan that included forty radiation doses over two months.
Not to be outdone, Náncy fell and broke her hip, had surgery, and is hobbling everywhere with a walker. She’s not out of the woods yet. Drs are talking about hip replacement.
Our van broke down, again. This time, however, we decided to get a newer van with fewer miles. To this end, I found and bought a one owner, ‘13 Caravan SLT with only 30k miles, and is bright red. It’s in Phoenix, and has never seen salt. It seems nicely equipped, so we’ll know in the next week or so.
Oh yea, one other thing happened that affected us - we wère told that we had to move out of Elmcroft, ostensibly because “…they were concerned about getting us (me) out of the building in the event of a fire.” This was despite the rule that tenants are not to leave the rooms in event of an alarm. Elmcroft was sold. The new corporate folks appear to want all aides to assume a concierge role in an independent living model.
I’m now at a Emerald Trace, and Nancy is getting our condo ready to sell. Getting it sold is the key for us to have the flexibility we need. We resumed our Bible study with four new members. We we we being led through the book of Proverbs by Mark Roberts.
One more really good thing happened this Summer, that being the celebration of Nancy and me and our Golden anniversary. While our date is actually in December, we chose to wait.
Good thing we did! Despite my paralysis, I was able to stand and dance with my bride of fifty years (with à new therapy device Gateway had just received.) We made the local (and, as it turns out, National-slow news day) news, and got a posting on Facebook.
That’s all for now. Thanks for checking in.
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