I know it's been too long, but as you know, we all must "go with the flow," to make it through each day. Let's just say my flow has been like swimming up the Amazon River, if you know what I mean?

I'm dealing with a great deal of chronic weakness and fatigue. On top of that, I was very close to being hospitalized upon my return from our cruise with an upper respiratory infection developing into severe acute bronchitis. My PCP strongly suspected pneumonia, but emergency xrays showed it hadn't gotten that far yet, so no hospital.

We can't believe it's Christmas time already as we were gone most of November. It feels like we were in a time warp from Halloween past Thanksgiving. We are going to have the whole family together for the Christmas holidays, which will be very special for me.

Now I'm working on trying to establish a new "normal baseline" for me to get the most out of the holidays and have everyone else enjoy the experience at the same time.

Bottom line is I've completed my first post on my personal blog regarding an experience on our cruise. Yes, there are pictures too. I believe many of you will find it interesting, fun, and may just shake your heads.

The link to my blog is in my signature file at the bottom. Feel free to leave whatever comments you would like or even post back here, which ever you feel most comfortable.

I will do my best to get back into visiting more regularly as there is so much going on with you guys I would like to respond to. The strength is just not there yet.

I hope you all have great plans for the holidays and I look forward to experiencing them vicariously here, so keep us informed. Watch my blog for more posts and best of all, pictures.