You're back!  I'm glad to see you!  Sorry you are on dialysis, but
peritoneal is more flexible and you can travel with it.  I'd just been
wondering how you were doing.

I hope you and Mary have lots of happy travels ahead of you!

Joy

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Mike <collum@myfairpoint.net> wrote:

> Hi all.  I haven't been on the list for the past three years as I've
> been recovering from my Goodpasture's syndrome.  The kidneys still don't
> function and I am on peritoneal dialysis but at least, this way, I can
> travel and go camping.
>
> Many of you expressed good wishes via email and I fully intended to
> reply to each individually but "Murphy's Law" got in the way.  My
> computer crashed big time and I had to reinstall the whole system. None
> of my old email could be saved.  I'm really sorry.
>
> I really missed you guys and all that goes on here on the list.  I was
> somewhat surprised to find, that after reading the mail for a week, it
> is like I never left!  The questions are the same, the answers are the
> same and the off topic banter is no different than it was in 2009.  Love
> it.
>
> Mary and I are in Maine right now but we'll be leaving for Virginia in
> about a week.  Sadly, we had to miss busfusion and West River Westies
> this time but we're looking forward to future events.
>
> Vanagons forever!
>
> Mike Collum
>