2016 update

First of all I want to thank you for visiting my blog. As you can see I wrote some posts back in 2009 and have not been back since.
I have been thinking about this whole experience more since the Zita virus has been in the news, which will likely be with us for a long time and is clearly going to spread more due to climate change and its effect on the mosquito range.
When I checked in today I was shocked to see how much traffic I have been getting here so I decided I should update things.
A lot has happened in my life and health since 2009.
I was diagnosed with CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) after my first bout of pneumonia in 2008 and had a second bout in 2011.
I still don't know what caused my pneumonia, but at this point it is more the after-effects I am dealing with. It turns out that about 80% of the local population here on Vancouver Island test positive for Cryptococus Gatti exposure as the fungus has spread widely, both here on the island and on the US and Canadian west coasts.