Blog Time Off

Blog posts are further and further in between. Life is so busy. So many changes coming in the next few months!

We are all busy, and life is hard for many. I have no reason to complain, as I have been blessed in so many ways. But there are so many changes that will happen in the coming months. First off, I am moving from Bloomington to Apple Valley. I have looked ahead, and the way it looks, I will not have a weekend free from Tennis or work until late May.

But the biggest issue is my health and wellness. I thought I was going to improve after my surgery in May. But the infection I have been fighting since late 2008 (which is the reason for my May 2010 Surgery) has come back many times or maybe never went away. I have been on strong Black Box Warning Medications (Fluoroquinolone plus others), and weeks later, I visited the Doc, and I got the news, IT'S BACK!

I just finished a round of four different medications 5 days ago. While on them, my chest is clear, I feel solid, and my head feels fine. After a few days without, I feel all the negative impacts return. So, I have decided not to bother friends and followers with my "bad" time. In reality, I am fine; I am just limited.

I am going to continue to work with the doctors and try to beat this, whatever it is. I know that being two weeks on heavy-duty antibiotics, then three weeks off, then two weeks on, and another three to four weeks off... I have just been in that cycle for eight months, and the end is not clear.

Anyway, that is an update and, for now, a sign-off from posting on this Blog. May we get through this winter and my spring be filled with success in beating this infection, which will not go away. Of course, one side of me says if I worked a 40-hour week for a month and reduced the stress, I would improve. But I have commitments, just like we all do, that result in more than 75 hours each week. At my full-time job, where I am just happy to be employed, we are in the hiring freeze, and with the stress of missing three (of 8) important staff members, I am killed at work, and if I miss a day, I go from being a week behind to even more and then I work a few 15 hours days to get things done...

May we all be blessed with good health and wellness as we get through a difficult time.

Carry on, my friends... Signing off and hope to be back in a few months...

New year... More photo's

Here are some photos I found that can express the way life feels for so many people right now:

A recent Dr. Visit found the following (At least that is the way the brain feels... gone):


When I come home and try to relax on the couch... even the couch overtakes me ...


Then I find the dogs have taken the credit cards... and a good life!


I had a nice two days in 2011. I'm looking forward to a good workout and a nice week. I have five straight tennis weekends, so it will be hard to get in the flow, but I will try not to stress out about it!

Carry on...