LIFE IS GOOD

Happy New Year to all. In spite of everything the Lord continiues to shine His grace and mercy on me and my family taking care of our needs and provides what we need and always on time. Everything has changed with a whole different medical practice and the job of building it up going fromj a speciality and hospital practice to a full time office practice. This now so rewarding and a lot less stress with essentially no call except my own patients that rarely call as they respect my time and I have reasonable rules to follow. The study at UCLA is apparently goiong well with vaccines every 3-4 months I believe, they have yetr to give me the need schedule so I can plan a little as it is hard to drop everying and go to California with little notice. I send them a bunch of blood this week and get an MRI in 2-3 weeks which tells the real story. I pray it continues to be great but I don't take anything for granted. I take a lot of suppliments and try to eat very heathy selections. I started an exercise program last week as I need to shed a lot of Holiday bagage. My family is doing well and they tolerate my occasional ups and downs but I try my best to not show them some of my stresses. I've learned so much from this battle for life and I am so much better a helper and listener and a lot more empathy. I am amazed how bad the information patients get or don't get any from the medical community so I do my best to be a good source of reference and encouragement and hope. The Lord is good and greatly to be praised. God bless all of you. Dr Jim and Linda

Happ;y New Year

The year ended with a flury and a lot of fun. We had our entire family home for Christmas including Kerry from San Francisco so that made it extra special. The house was so nicely decorated and nice outside lights. After Christmas we got ready for a family cruise in the eastern Carribean. We went on the Holland America line and it was the first time my children had ever had that experience. With the close call with life and the battle not over we are trying to make memories while we can and each day is special and a blessing. We visited St Thomas, San Juan, a private island and a lot of open water cruising as the weather got crummy and high winds so we couldn't dock at Grand Turks. Nevertheless itg still was great and atr least 5 pounds gained. Shortly after returning I had a busy day in the office which is turning around for the better. Then Linda and I flew to Los Angeles to UCLA Med Center for another vaccine. This time it was a booster and I will now get these every 3 months for a while, as long as they tell me and God wills. I had prayed to get on this arm of the clinical study as it makes a lot of good sence to me to get these. Immediately after return I had a busy office day before resting tonight and preparing for some work at a clinic I help with and it provides extra income for the practice. Also I'm gong to try to pick up a lot of the dead and broken branches after the ice store and try to be very careful with the chain saw. These always scare me some and I try to be so careful. I believe a lot of opportunities are right around the corner so every day is a new adventure. I have an MRI in one month to check on progress and I believe it will be good. Please keep up the prayers as my practice ministry has never been better. Dr Jim ande Linda