It was a good year because I reunited with a Vietnam War buddy after 43 years. I had been trying to locate Bob for most of that time, when out of the blue I got an email from him. It was great meeting up with Bob and Sherrin in Chicago in April.
It was fantastic for us to travel out west for six weeks this summer (June and July) with a brief stay to see the wonders of Yellowstone National Park as we traveled to our main destination of Fort Collins, Colorado. We took many trips up to Estes Park and the Rocky Mountain National Park. The only downside, if you will, was that when we returned home we felt we lost six weeks of summer, since we weren't home in Michigan (if that makes any sense).
In October we celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary with a five day trip to Toronto, and saw the Cirque du Soliel presentation of Michael Jackson - The Immortal. Wonderful.
It was a very bad year health-wise, as the middle of May on a weekend trip to Mackinac Island, Mary came down with a serious illness which ended up with a five day stay in the hospital in St. Ignace.
Then came the worst scenario one could imagine . . . on September 1st, Mary was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer - Angiosarcoma. Which is a cancer of the soft tissues, such as blood vessels. The prognosis is grim - 1 to 5 years on the average. But we are taking it one day at a time. Mary says "I am not a statistic." So we move on together, appreciating each and every day as it arrives.
After what we experienced in 2011, I wonder what 2012 will bring us all.
God Bless!
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