I am on vacation on Cortes Island, a place that is only reached by taking two ferries from Vancouver Island and is quite magical. I came here with Lucy and our two girls girls for a vacation and then stayed on to take a writing workshop with Linda Solomon, the editor of the Vancouver Observer a great on-line news site.
http://www.thevancouverobserver.com
After only a few days on Cortes I was hiking trails and swimming along the beach feeling like my old self again. I finally feel fully recovered with no more bouts of exhaustion in response to a long walk or late night. It feels great.
My blood tests came back negative from the B.C. CDC, but my Urologist told me the tests for Cryptococus Gatti quite often give false negatives. So I will never know if I am truly a victim of global warming or whether my pneumonia last fall had another origin, but it is great to feel better after being ill for almost a year.
I will go for a Stress Test on a treadmill when I get back to Victoria to check my current heart function etc and then be enrolled in a twelve week rehab program to get my strength back and start to lose some of the weight I have put on being so sedentary while I was ill.
I recommend Cortes Island and the Hollyhock Retreat Center here in particular, it has been an amazingly curative two weeks here and I am staying on another five or six days which I am really looking forward to.
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