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December 28, 2004 - Part 24
As Flo and I sit here in our lovely little office of our lovely new home with the beautiful view out the windows of pine trees laden with puffy white snow, we can't believe we've made it this far. It was early last August that we last reported to you and I must admit it has been a LONG and EVENTFUL journey since then. Yes indeedy, we have accomplished the unaccomplishable. Just after our last talk with you we finally obtained a final annulment, the final papers having been signed on the day before the final moving day. The final house closing in Utah was signed, sealed, and delivered on that same final day. When the moving van pulled away we finished packing two vehicles with all the typical cargo for a trip from Utah to Vermont. This included fifty green canisters of oxygen, one large oxygen concentrator, five pounds of oxygen tubing, fifty pounds of dry ice, one pair of large space shuttle gloves with which to handle the dry ice, six weeks worth of Flo's supplies, four weeks worth of other PH meds, four boxes of important stuff not to be trusted with the movers, two boxes of important documents, three boxes of not very important stuff, two cats in two carriers, five pounds of cat food, ten pounds of litter, two weeks worth of feline sedation, twenty-five maps, and two drivers. It was a tight fit but our load lightened as the dry ice mysteriously disappeared. This typically four day cross country jaunt only took ten days. You guessed right, we took the SNAIL TRAIL, which, in case you didn't know, is the ONLY route PH patients are allowed to travel. The journey WAS eventful, with one trip to the E.R. before we got past the Utah border, one meeting with a tornado in Iowa, and a visit in Toledo with friends, followed by another visit in Rochester with our dear PH friends Carol L, Mr. Dennis, and his lovely wife Princess Irene. And can you believe they THREW A BIRTHDAY PARTY for me??!! It was, indeed, quite a competition, but it ended up that Mr. Dennis threw it the farthest. We drove on from Rochester to Vermont, but by that time we already knew that it would only be a temporary stop. You see, three days into the trip, somewhere in Wyoming I think, my niece called our hotel room from Vermont to report an EPIPHANY. Do you know what an EPIPHANY is? Well I didn't either, but I do NOW. An EPIPHANY is something that makes you want to live in Maine instead of Vermont. So, in reality, an EPIPHANY makes Karen & Flo move twice instead ofonce, and therefore at exactly 10:07 a.m. on September 22nd, we acquired a brandnew mortgage on our new permanent address in Maine, three miles from the beach, just down the road from Georgeand Barbara. Please know that during ALL of this, Flo and I were simultaneously, and diligently, working to increase our collection of Nanograms so we could get enough of them on our team to beat the PH Team. Every tiny one CC increase would make me soooo sick of those Side Effects performances. But we have finally collected seventeen Nanograms, and they must be very talented, because they are doing the job. Yep, our team is beating the PH Team 17 to 0 now! HOWEVER, I feel I simply MUST issue a warning. All of this activity, while titrating up with Flo, was WAY OVER THE TOP. I would not want to do it again. And I would NOT recommend it to anyone else. So here it is: ***WARNING***
***DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME***
***These stunts are only to be performed by PROFESSIONAL idiots***
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