Al and I were in Florida in late Feb/early March. When we returned, I went to Calgary for a week to help Kaila set up her new house. In early May, I went to Cuba for a week. I then took a vacation with Al to BC, Alberta and Montana in June. Upon return, my friend Lori from Florida was visiting and Al and I went to Port Elgin for the weekend.
Al is again going to be working every other week in Ottawa and I will travel up there with him from time to time. We have other adventures lined up for this summer as well. All this and the weather is hot and muggy, so my pool is just dreamy!! This is why I have not written a posting for a while. I had lots running around my head...but I just did not get them onto the blog!!
Although I am very busy, I am also being very careful. I rest as often and as much as I can and need to. Sometimes it is several hours a day for several consecutive days, and then I will have bursts of energy and will do too much for a few days...starting the cycle all over again. LOL!!! My mom and my husband are constantly reminding me to slow down...but on the days that I feel good...I want to accomplish things!! I push as hard as I can for as long as I can. :)
I find when I am busy, I don't think about my disease. Not that it consumes me when I am idle, but on a grander scale, I forget I am sick when I am busy. This is good and bad. Bad, because I tend to over-do it!! Oh well. C'est la vie!! I don't think I will change my habits just yet. I will do what I can, when I can...just in case I can't do it again.
Al and I are going camping in August. Camping. Yes...tents, dirt, bugs, camp-fire...camping. We used to take the kids every year and then after the kids grew up and before my tennis elbow issues flared up, we went as a couple. Loved it. Black sky, bright starts, rustling trees, camp-fires.
We missed a few years when my elbows were bad and I was on a waiting list for surgery. Then, in 2013, I finally had my surgeries, and Al had his heart attack and I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Great fucking year!!
I think I am finally strong enough to set up camp and deal with a camping lifestyle again. We decided on a week to go and I thought for sure there would be no sites available. Usually, you have to be on the internet at 0700 hrs exactly 4 months prior to the date you want to arrive in order to book a site at The Pinery in Grand Bend. I signed on...just to see. Well, after punching in the dates (4 nights), I looked for availability. There was an indication of availability in Dunes Area 4 (where we usually camped). When I clicked open the map to show the sites, only one was available. It was the same site we stayed in the last time we camped!! It was meant to be!! I booked it right away.
I may not be able to kayak on the river, or body surf for hours in Lake Huron, but I can sit by a camp-fire and toast marshmallows, lean back and take in the stars, and sleep deeply in the fresh air. I am doing it because I can. Next year, maybe I won't be able to...
Carpe Diem! Seize the Day! I don't want to have regrets. If I want to do something, experience something, see something... and it won't kill me or break the bank... I am going to do it! YOLO!!
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Now you can grab a wee nap after that newsy blog. Good to read you again :)
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