Didn't realize how long it has been since I last bloged. I have been guilty I guess of doing a lot of lurking as of late.

Well all seems to quieting down here at long last. As we approach Thanksgiving day, I look back at was has been a real ruff year for us. Seems like after last Thanksgiving everything went down hill. It was the last time I would have any memorable activities with my father in law. Last Thanksgiving mother nature gave us a beautiful day weather wise. My father in law had been home a week or so from having a pace maker put in. He and I ate our thanksgiving dinner together out on his front porch.

It wasn't long after Thanksgiving day that he got real sick and was in the hospital most of last winter. In July he became the 2nd of 4 deaths in the family this year. I can't help but wonder how everyone will hold up this year as the Holiday's approach. Holiday's where the family would all gather was treasured my daddy in law.

Well the year continued with Kitty being hospitalized a few times. Start day after we buried my oldest nephew back in May. Kitty's cumodin went bad on her and she had a lot of internal bleeding from it. She spent 2 weeks in the hospital that round. Then over the summer a couple rounds with pnemonia.

Then I went down sick I guess you can call it. Started out with a round of internal bleeding and then congestive heart failure. Some where in the midst of that I evidently had and somehow survived a silent heart attack. Guess I may sound like some of our survivors here, but from what I have read and understand it, not many survive the silent heart attacks. I don't think a day goes by that I don't think about that and wonder why I survived. Only the good Lord above knows the answer to that question.

All in all with all the bad that has happen I am ever thankful that Kitty, Rose and I are still kicking and together. What the future holds is unknown by any of us. But for me I figure it should prove to be interesting.

Oh and before I forget, I am thankful for my new found friends here on strokenet. May this site never go away or change.

Mike