Very Special Day

 

Tomorrow, January 26, is a very important day for my wife, Marsha and for myself. 

It is our 41st wedding anniversary! 

More importantly, it is of significance because our life has become so much better. It is really our first anniversary time-period in our new life together that we share between us as I am recovering from my illness.

Yes, our marriage has gone on for many years and will go on for many more. In fact, our marriage is even better and happier between us now than it ever has been before! Marsha has always been a fabulous woman as far as I am concerned. She is my partner who has helped me to recover so much over the past year and for which I am so grateful. 

January 26. What a day that will be because of what has happened over the last 12 months. I don't want to talk a lot about the events in 2015 since the beginning of the year because, dear reader, if you have been reading my other entries on my blog, you'll be quite familiar with what has happened and with what I and my family have had to deal. Yet, I just still have that important need personally to talk about it a bit at least one more time. Then, I want to forget about it because I believe my life has changed dramatically for the better. Forever! I do not want to remember any more about the near tragedy of the past. 

As I'm sure that you remember, on December 31, 2014/January 1, 2015, I had to go to hospital because of an illness that I was suffering. I had gone home on the 31st because not much was going on there even though I had stayed around for a good number of hours. I thought I was feeling better. As far as I was concerned, they did not seem to know what the cause of my illness was anyway. However, I had to return on January 1 because I was even more ill and in fact was admitted to hospital quickly because of how sick I was. The information I now have was that the Encephalitis virus that escalated to my brain may be fatal. If I had not been in the hospital, and at least the doctor who was looking after me had a suspicion what was going on and started immediate treatment, otherwise I would probably be dead now. The illness is complicated to deal with. I was quite fortunate being able to survive and that I was treated so well. 

Again, as you may recall, I was brought home in the middle of January and was treated under very expensive and intense medical care and medication for another month. I cannot recall anything that happened to me from January 1 until mid-February, believe it or not. I was so totally out of it by the care and medication I was under. My family worked so hard for me during this time frame at our house along with doctors, staff of hospital people and people from outside medical organizations. They were there to help me recover and to get better by doing all that work. 

Again, as you know, for about the next 3 months, I was pretty much in bed and could not move around a lot especially from my second-floor bedroom. I did not take the chance of walking down the stairs at all during that time because there was no guarantee that I could do that without falling down the stairs and hurting myself seriously. 

I started undertaking increased physical exercises that ultimately allowed me to start moving around. I was even able to go up and down the stairs very slowly towards the end of April. It was during this time frame that the decision was made for us to sell our home and to try and find a new place to live. I really could no longer live in a large, two-story home that was so expensive to look after. Fortunately, my wife assisted by my daughter and her boyfriend were able to accomplish what was necessary to do because of the excellent work provided by the real estate company that worked with us. We were able to sell our house within days once we put it on the market. That was something that I never expected to happen.  Accordingly, we had good reasons for our new life to begin. 

From the end of May, we started living in our new home in the Town of Tecumseh. It was really something that I never expected to happen since I was not very familiar with the Town at all. Our place though was a fabulous one, a townhouse, that we were able to purchase and which required relatively little work to fix up when we moved in. Moreover, living in a more quiet area allowed me, accompanied by my wife, to walk for several hours almost every day to get my physical condition improving dramatically. 

As I have been recovering over the past 12 months, I have talked to and met with so many people that I have known over the years who have been so kind in their relationship with me. Many of them came to our place to meet so that I could enjoy how well I was recovering in my life because they were such good people. To be quite direct about it, not one single person whom I have known has done anything wrong between us over the last year and has in fact made a lot of effort to help me get better. I'm so grateful for that. 

Of course, we met many of our new neighbours very soon after our move and have had a tremendous relationship with them.  Again, they are all good people and have offered us assistance to help me out if required once they knew what my condition was. I am grateful for them being so kind as well. 

By the way, I'm not going to talk about my wife and 2 children very much in this article. You know how appreciative I am of them if you have read anything at all that I have written since I started up this website. They made the decision to make me an important part of their lives to help me recover. The past year for them has been very difficult because they had to deal with a person who was very ill with a disease that not many medical people knew very much about. They had the difficult task of not only looking after me but also learning about something that was possibly so tragic for them as well. The 3 of them all did a remarkable job in helping me recover so very well in such a short period of time. Of course, there is an extra person to add on and that is my daughter's boyfriend, Bill, who was wonderful and also helped me recover.  

I do know that this year my children devoted so much of their lives to assist me out that has hurt them in a number of ways. They just stopped doing anything significant in their own lives to help out me and their mother whose life also changed so dramatically. Yet, I also know that their actions helped them change their lives for the better in a way that none of us ever expected would happen although it quite often does, as I have seen even in my own life with my parents.  As far as I personally am concerned, they should expect that they will do so well in the future because of how much they have learned in taking care of their parents over the past 12 months. 

As for Marsha, well, you know how strong she has become. She has become the key person in looking after me. She learned so quickly how to make my life better. I am not going to say anything else about that because you have read about it already on here.  

I have worked so hard to overcome the bad and believe that I have successfully done so with the assistance of so many terrific people. 

On our very special wedding anniversary tomorrow, the 26th day of January, I know for sure that we are going to work hard to make a fabulous meal and spend enjoyable time together. 

Thank you for reading and continuing to be part of my life!