Sorry not for responding sooner, I just now saw this thread. Thanks so much -- all of you! -- for asking about me.

I'm doing OK. Yes, I'm in rehab three days a week which is of course exercise and diet. We're trying to keep up a regular walking routine on non-rehab days, too. The good news here in Seattle is that we're having a bizarre winter -- the sun is blazing every single day. I think maybe it's rained once in the month since we've been home. It's SO sunny that our south-facing livingroom becomes uncomfortably warm and bright in the afternoons -- 75 just now when we came in.

I still get tired more quickly than before, but it's better than at the beginning. Today I haven't even taken a nap!! yet .....

Yes, it is sad to read Marcie's posts. I'm still terribly disappointed to be missing this trip. They asked me at the rehab evaluation if I was depressed. I said no, not depressed, but very very disappointed. WHY couldn't I have waited until Bermuda for this to have happened???

After the nuclear stress test the cardiologist said that he saw no more damage than what he already knew was there, and I'm as well off treated with drugs as with surgery. So I'm taking seven different drugs every day, but am very grateful that surgery is not called for. The worst issue right now is the arrhythmia that keeps coming back.

He says that if everything still looks good on my next appointment -- about three weeks from now -- that I can then travel. So we'll probably head to Florida toward the end of March.

Kathleen, you asked about my screen name. It's really so mundane -- my last name is Gray, and my husband Al's last name is Wolf. When we got married many people suggested we should hyphenate, but it just seemed too corny. The combination does make an easy-to-remember screen name, though. I use it as a login name for many sites.

I still enjoy reading of all your escapades, though! I may be temporarily slowed down, but it helps to read of 'normal' lives. Right now we don't know when our next cruise will be, especially with ROAR next year. I have to get in good enough shape that being out in the wilds won't be an issue!

You'll still see me 'lurking' (it always sounds so much like 'stalking'!), I've just not so much to contribute lately --

Betty