Wow, It's been a long time

I can't believe it's been almost a year since my last post...
I guess I have been very busy. I had a strangely tough bout with Meniere's Disease starting in May that first reappeared as I was enroute to San Francisco. About 30 minutes before landing I got very, very dizzy. We landed and I was the only one left on the airplane when a flight attendant asked if he could help me. I told him I was having a very bad dizzy spell and I could not stand. They helped me off the airplane in a wheelchair, put me in the gate waiting area and I almost immediately started vomiting. The scene was chaotic as people scattered from me (swine flu was in the news). I was meeting Rick (inbound from Cleveland) but he was not due to land for another hour and a half. Thank goodness I always carry Antivert. The spell gradually diminished. Dizzy spells seemed to be set on an every 5 day cycle and this series hit me like a ton of bricks with NO warning and always was accompanied with vomiting and diarrhea. I was unable to drive for about 2 months because the dizziness was out of control. Those dizzy spells completely changed my intended direction in changing my career. That is water under the bridge.

Elle started her second year in college and Liz had only the fall semester left before finishing her B.A. The best part of having adult children is enjoying their successes with them! Katy was laid off in March from the architecture firm she was working but will be starting a teaching certification program next week and hopefully she will be teaching math very soon and she will be a productive part of society again. She will be a degreed architect teaching middle-school math.

We have become grandparents, for a second time, on December 19th. Jen and John had a 2nd boy.

On a less happy note, Elle fell, after leaving her cell phone, chasing a cab as it drove away. She tripped on the train track divider from the street. Her right (dominant) wrist was broken and 7 weeks later it was determined that the break was the minor injury. She also tore her TFCC. She had surgery on the 14th of January. School starts on the 1st of February and she will be in a cast for 6 to 8 weeks followed by a splint and physical therapy. She has will not be back to normal use with her wrist until about April 14th. The school semester will almost be over at that point.

As I love to say......Life is what happens when you plan everything else.