Planning Ahead, but living for today.







We've been here in AZ for a couple of weeks now, enjoying sunshine and moderate but not hot temps and doing all my doctor appts for the radiation therapy I will be having on a benign tumor in my right auditory canal. The hearing loss and other symptoms I've been experiencing will not be going away, even after the treatments, but the nerve involving the facial nerves will be spared from being affected by this tumor by having it removed this way. There is a ten percent chance that it will be affected by the radiation itself, but that is a much lower percentage compared to the certainty of a permanent Bells Palsy type of condition if I don't have the procedure done. I am very pleased with the doctors who will be doing this, and we are just waiting now for all the appointments I need for MRIs and the treatments. They should be within the next couple of weeks, which is a huge relief.
Our soldiers, and Kasey, are busy back at home. But they are enjoying being back together in their new home. We have been blessed this past year and are not forgetting that we should take the example they set and live in the present...thinking and remembering the future, but grateful for the time at hand. We will be living with Laurie and Kasey once Stephen is deployed because halfway through his next deployment, the Army has plans for Laurie as well. And we will have guardianship of Kasey once again. We will put the RV into storage and remain at their home which will make it lots better for Kasey.
In the meantime, we continue to enjoy life in our RV - lots of senior citizens here in AZ who have been living as full time RVers for a lot longer than we have. We are meeting people here in our RV park who have come from all over the states to keep warm and we are finding that we have lots in common with many of them. Some have children who are serving or have served; or are veterans of VietNam as Ron is. They have stories as we do, and are thankful - as we are for the everyday things like good health, and the ability to do this traveling thing.
We are watching the remake of All Quiet on The Western Front. Whether on the battlefield in Germany in WW1, or in the sands of Iraq, or the mountains of Afghanistan in present day, war doesn't seem to change - but the faces do.
We are free, and the principle never changes - we want others to be free as well. I pray this never changes.
It's all part of God's plan and I don't question His will. And I know that His bigger plan is peace.
I pray that it will come soon.
God bless our troops and those of us who love them.