Many of you know that Jim and I decided to stay through the end of the year in the Portland, Ore area to spend the holidays with my family.  It was fated to be, because both of my parents have had some health issues since we hit the road.

My dad had a minor heart attack in the beginning of August, and then my mom had an issue and couldn’t breath at the end of August. They both spent some time in the hospital but they both came home after a few days.

Dad is on the mend, slowly but surely. He has to take it a little easier because he gets so out of breath easier now, but he still gets around fine. Mom is on the mend too, but there have been a few new issues come up since coming home. They diagnosed her as having acute emphysema (smoked for 30 years) and also COPD. She also had some pneumonia in her lungs which they took care of with antibiotics. But, the final diagnosis is that she has a very early stage 1 lung cancer nodule. She has actually started radiation treatment for it and will be done with the 3 treatments next week. They hope that will take care of it, but the other good thing is that it is a slow growing cancer, if there is a good thing about cancer.

They are both in great spirits, just frustrated in that they can’t do everything they use to, but still get around.

Here are a few pictures to share with you…

 Sally Marie Knight Montgomery HS Graduation picture

 Monty Leon Montgomery HS Graduation picture

 Sally & Monty on their wedding day

 Celebrating their 50th wedding Anniversary at Cow Camp

Celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary at Cow Camp