November 23, 2014

Kay says it is my turn to write this blog posting. 

It's hard to believe we have been in Texas over three weeks.  We have heard all about the snow and the cold back home.  We truly miss all our friends and family, but we are just fine with the weather we have here.

Last Friday, we celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary. We didn't do anything to fancy, just a nice dinner, and enjoying being with the sweetest girl in the world.  But perhaps the anniversary of more significance was the one we celebrated the next day, Saturday.  It was that day three years ago that we sat in the doctor's office and were given the standard ALS sentence.  We have not only left the 1 year prognosis in the dust, but we continue, not only to hold our own against this vicious desease, but are yet continuing to improve.  Life is good.  But we have much work to do, as our community of PALS (People with ALS) continues to expand.  We are making friends that will last a lifetime.

We are staying in a retirement park appropriately named Winter Haven, here in Brownsville, Texas.  We had a nice little bike ride around the park this afternoon.

There are water ways (called resacas) that run throughout the park.  I really wish we could swim in them, but not only are they quite shallow, they are inhabited with snakes, so we are told.  We will take their word for it.

Let us intnroduce you to a couple new freinds we made this afternoon.  We couldn't see any name tags, but Molly and Lucy sounds good.

This is King Trent, wishing us well at our early Thanksgiving Dinner last month.  It was just a bit non traditional, as Nanette made us gluten free pizza.  I highly recommend it.

King Trent again, with his Dad, after a hard day at work. Trent had just learned to crawl, and it was exhausting. My, he is changing and growing so quickly.

It is these kinds of new friends that have impacted our lives these past three years.  Scott Douglas and Tish Tamowski (husband and wife) spent a couple days with us the first of this week, as they continue their work on a documentary about those of us that have beaten ALS.  We are proud to be associated with this project, and appreciate so many of you close friends that have contributed to it.


At this Thanksgiving time of the year, we are truly grateful for so many blessings; not the least of these are the many friendships that we treasure.  We are greatful for family, and we are grateful for a loving Heavenly Father that plays such a crucial part in our lives.  We are especially grateful for the many new PALS that are also now part of our family.

May God bless you all until we see you again.

Much Love,

Kim & Kay