Saturday, October 29, 2016

I am in a different world

Terry and I arrived in Naples yesterday at about 2:30.  I am in a different world now.
  • I did NOT dream about how to hang the bathroom door last night but instead I had visions of myself playing basketball in HS (I play tennis at 7:30 today)
  • I got out of bed, opened the door and was in the living room instead of going down a long flight of stairs.
  • The temp is 73 and not 54.
  • In the garage is the car and not work items.
  • I see palm trees and not trees that have shed all their leaves.
  • When I look out the back I see a swimming pool and a pond, not a cedar tree and the neighbor's house.
I am not saying one is good and one is bad just that it is a different world!
There were difficult moments coming to Naples again.  Our friend Ben R is battling the issues of a severe stroke and we will not see him this winter.  Our neighbor Diane is battling a major health issue and we may not see her and John this winter.  A friend Bruce B died over the summer and I do not think his wife Linda will come down.  I know that we all get older and things change but this is difficult.  When I step onto the tennis court this morning for the first time in 5 1/2 months I will think about Ben and Bruce.
Our trip here over the last three days was uneventful and it went fast.  Last spring we did a camping trip on the way to MN and drove 5000 miles in three weeks.  This time we did not visit anyone or anything and we drove 1720 miles in three days--a big difference.
I know that Terry is often in much pain yet but I do think she is getting better each day.  I feel it will help to not have any steps in the house as here everything is on one level.  She will have PT Tuesday and we are hoping she can get some ideas for water exercise.  If so will will heat the pool and she can start that. 
No paper yet and I hope it arrives.  There should have been one yesterday when we arrived home but there was none.  Of course we did not know if it was delivered or not.
Enough for now as the FP is nearly gone.

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