Thursday, January 15, 2015

Waiting Impatiently


Just a brief word of reassurance to those who have devoted a lot of their valuable time and energy reading my blog and sharing my journey over these past several months.

I have not disappeared.

Let me first bait you a little bit and tell you, there is SO much more to this story! So, so, so much more. 

In the ten days since my last blog post, I have endured a two-day air travel nightmare that should have taken just a single afternoon. That alone could have been a blog post from hell. Since my arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, I have been felled with the flu. I am typing this blog entry from a strange bed in a puddle of my own sweat whilst coughing up my left lung.

It has been a less than conducive atmosphere for writing.

Although I will be away from home until February 17, I had fully anticipated keeping you all on board for this crazy ride. I just have to ask your indulgence while the driver of this short bus takes a few extra days to recuperate.

Trust me.

It will be worth the wait.

22 comments:

  1. Hope you recover quickly and completely!

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  2. Being sick is bad enough. Having the flu in a hotel room is horrific. We'll wait patiently while you get better.

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  3. Get well soon, Michael, and thanks for letting us know.

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  4. You take care of yourself. We're still here.

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  5. Feel better soon. A good story can always wait.

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  6. The best laid plans.... I have no doubt the wait will be worth it. Hope you feel better soon.

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  7. I hope you recover quickly, it is nasty this year! I anxiously await your continued story!

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  8. Hope you are well soon, and looking forward to the next part of the story. Take care of yourself.

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  9. Dear Mike,

    I have been enjoying your blog and hope that you are recovering from the flu.

    On a different matter, are you aware that Governor Pence has proposed cutting the funding for the Genealogy Department at the Indiana State Library? I heard about it because I'm a retired librarian. I am hoping that the word has gotten around in the genealogy world also, so that genealogists will contact their representatives to restore the funding.

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  10. Michael, Thank you for letting us know what is going on with you. I am sorry you are sick. That is miserable. As others have said take good care of yourself. We will wait patiently for the next post.

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  11. Thank you for filling us in. Sorry you've got the flu. Hope you recover quickly. I will wait patiently for further episodes.

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  12. Cyndi Ingle has been commenting on her flu experience. Did she infect you, too?

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  13. Get well soon, Michael. This flu going around is a nasty one.

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  14. For those of you who do not know already, the flu kicked my butt... but the subsequent pneumonia I got thereafter nearly killed me. I am on the mend, and I will be posting soon!!!

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    1. Good to hear you are on the mend. The flu is awful. I was diagnosed with it after dramatically passing out on someone on my way to the bathroom at the back of the plane I was on. I'm pretty sure everyone believed that the well tanned tourist had his fair share of tequila in Mexico. But a trip straight to the ER from the airport diagnosed influenza B. Bad strain-and 10 days later I finally felt half normal again. I now look at someone with the sniffles that announces "I have the flu!" With eyes that say..."you have no idea"😕 Get well,be well. Looking forward to more of your story.

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    2. Thanks for the update... Like many others I'm sure, I have been checking back daily! Hope you are on the mend, but it takes awhile to bounce back from pneumonia, even at a young age! After you are all better make sure to get the pneumatic vaccine!

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    3. Sadly, you are not alone - the flu then followed by pneumonia seems to be the 'trend' this year.

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  15. Ouch! Hope you're feeling better soon.

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  16. Am relieved to hear that you are finally on the mend.

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