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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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OkieGal
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Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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2012, has been quite a year.
My health had issues starting in late fall 2009, and I ended up with a massive h. pylorus infection that almost did me in, I did end up with severe malnutrition and 16 months of a diet to try to heal that enough so I could stand treatment for 4 digit cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. This fall we couldn't wait anymore and I did manage with doctor mandated veganism to drop from 1018 at the start of the first diet and check end of July at 529 to get to 214 by early October. Then the gall bladder checked in and permanently checked out.
Club wise, we lost three growers this year. Shirley Powers, our treekin grower, in June, of unknown causes. Aug 19, Delane Schwindt, a mainstay supporter of our group and his daughter Makenzie one of our junior growers, lost his fight with esophogeal cancer. Louise Smith, wife of our county record holder and grower extraordinare, November 9th.
My SBH lost his mother March 9th and her funeral was on her 90th birthday... I just received the call this morning, my father who was diagnosed with (terminal) lung cancer in mid October, died of a massive heart attack in the hospital, it was sudden and he'd been taken in late Christmas Day.
Despite it all, we have gotten a new (to us)kuboda tractor, towable backhoe, and been doing stump digging on the new patch. I also built a prototype greenhouse 12x16 rigid all season; and hope to start 2013 on a much better note personally and clubwise.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and more PB's in 2013.
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