Keeping On

If you are still checking this blog I appreciate your patience. The reason for my silence is that I have once again been able to get out and start living life! It is a different life, but we are so incredibly grateful to be able to do what we have been doing.
 
A quick update on my health: things are continuing in the right direct. Since my last blog post in early September my lung function numbers continued to increase for a month or six weeks, and they have now nicely plateaued almost within sight of my numbers from before I got sick. Carrie and I continue to go a walks 4-5 times a week, and I’ve had to decrease my food intake as I was edging towards the over-side of my optimum weight.
 
The opportunities this miraculous turn around in my health have afforded me have been incredible.  I was able to participate in the fall harvest, hauling corn for our farm as well as two others in Delta. I was able to help out with Carrie’s family in their ranch round up, riding an ATV through the back trails of the Merritt area rounding up cattle and driving them down to the corrals, where they could be trucked back to the ranch for winter. I was able to preach at a church in Vancouver, and Carrie and I went away for a weekend to celebrate our one-year anniversary. It has been a busy two months.
 
It is difficult to express the how full of gratitude our hearts are for this turn around and healing in my health. I saw my doctor last week and he said that the pre-transplant clinic has now officially closed my file as there is no need to talk about re-transplant now, and that my recovery is not something anyone on the transplant team could have foreseen.
 
Taking care of myself and my health is my top priority again, and will be for the rest of my life. We are so incredibly humbled and grateful for this second (or is it third) chance at life I am now experiencing.