109 Days....

It has been 109 days since that fateful day when our life changed.  We are currently sitting in Pearson International Airport waiting to board our 16 hour flight to Taipei, then 4 hour layover, then 5 hour flight to Singapore where we will stay night then take a ferry to Malaysia where after a 40 minute taxi ride or 1 hour bus ride will FINALLY be back on board Blowin’ Bubbles....

I am filled with different emotions. We have been blesssed with time with our family and friends at home over the last few months.  We have be cared for by our great friends, Bruce & Yvonne who have given us a home and the use of the apartment above their dive shop, use of a car, and too many gourmet meals to count.
Our family doctor has gone way above the call of duty, seeing us whenever we needed him, sometimes outside regular office hours, even our pharmacy who saw to it we have a travel supply of medication.  We appreciate all the doctors in all the hospitals from Indonesia to Kitchener who put us back together in one way or another.
We thank from the bottom of our hearts the friends, family and complete strangers who literally saved us with the money raised by our youngest daughter’s Go Fund Me Page, the people from home and away who helped us in so many ways (you know who you are).  The folks at the travel insurance office DAN (Divers Alert Network) who saw to it that we got to Singapore for surgery and home to recover.
Our hearts are so full!
At a very personal level, thank you to my amazing wife, Shelley who LITERALLY saved my life.  With a full on concussion she somehow managed to get done what had to be done to get me to where they could fix me. Then for the last 109 days putting up with my moods, my pain, my struggles.... she deserves sainthood at the very least.

Our lives are different now.  We will be deciding over the next few months where we go next.  Back on the boat we will slowly get her ready to go back to sea when my strength comes back and my body heals a little more.  Since I can’t sail yet, we plan to explore a little of SE Asia by bus, train and plane.  Before the accident Shelley had booked a trip for us to Vietnam and Cambodia.  Some let us cancel, but others would only let us change dates were kind enough to let us change the dates