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Observations on Parkinson’s Disease

A New Challenge — I was surprised by a diagnosis of Parkinsonism in July 2020. Two years later, my neurologist made the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease definite. It’s now at an advanced stage, and I’ve learned a lot about it. I’m writing this new blog to share my observations with…

A Quick Update

When I finished my bladder cancer blog a few weeks ago, I wrote that I would start a new blog soon. This has changed. I’m postponing the first post for my new blog to July 2020. Why? Briefly, I fell and sustained an injury three weeks ago that has thrown…

Concluding Remarks and Challenges

Readers, please notice the dates on all entries. Part I of My Bladder Cancer Showdown took place in 2018 and 2019. Part II, titled Long-term Recovery, took place through most of 2019. Now we’re into January 2020, and it’s time to bring this blog to a conclusion. January, 2020: I am truly blessed by the…

Hospitalized!

New readers, please notice the dates on all entries. Part I of My Bladder Cancer Story took place in 2018 and 2019. I use the actual dateline framework so the story will unfold for the reader as it happened to me. In the last episode, Carol had to call an…

The Long Trip Home

After breakfast Sunday morning, we walked about a mile up to the community church. The service was conducted in Amharic, Ethiopia’s national language. Most of the early part of the service consisted of vibrant singing. The youth were very active, swaying and jumping inches off the ground to the beat…

Gondar Highlights

Our hotel in Addis set up a 5 AM breakfast for us this morning so we could get to the airport in time for our flight to Gondar. We made it in time and arrived in Gondar shortly after 8 AM. A large van took us to the Goha Hotel…

On to Ethiopia

We were up for a 6:30 AM breakfast so we could go for a morning game-viewing safari before heading for Addis. Loading up two open-air Jeep Safari vehicles, we were off to the Zambezi Game Park. The drivers gave each of us a large blanket to shield ourselves from the…

Victoria Falls!

This morning we were up at the crack of dawn to fly to Victoria Falls. As we approached the falls area, we could see the mist rising from the falls before we landed. Three taxis took our group to the Livingstone Lodge where we had reservations. The manager there gave…

Our Visit to St. Peter’s Church

We piled into the van after breakfast and headed for St. Peter’s church in Mutare about 9 AM. Tom and Tracey Sarimana met us there and reserved the first two front row pews for us. This service is entirely in Shona, so they had church members sit between members of…

Butternut Squash and Lentils

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Yesterday I cooked butternut squash with lentils, chopped onion, and fresh greens from our garden, seasoned with curry, turmeric, and ginger. There was enough to have as our main entrée for supper last night and again tonight. We had different side veggies each time, tonight’s being fresh organic beets, cauliflower,…

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