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It’s been a while since I’ve written about myself and what’s going on with me and not focusing on Kiddo, but today I’m here to catch y’all up on a few things. In the last few months, I’ve been struggling with my health.   I broke a toe in Vietnam and then after that I strained a shoulder muscle.   This lead to a breakout of shingles and let me tell you; that is NOT fun.   Come early September I can get the vax for that and believe you me, I can’t wait for that day, because anything to lower the chances of that happening again.   Ugggg.   The muscle weakness and nerve pain were much. That, however, lead to the doctors wondering why I had such high blood pressure.   It was a trend.   In the last 6 months, my low had been 140/90, but I had seen the doc for illnesses and the like.   I, and the doctor I saw for my flu vax, wrote it off to anxiety for seeing a Chinese doctor.   In BKK, I needed to go in about every 75 days to get my ADHD meds and t...
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A long climb up a mountain

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May kicked off with a long weekend for the girls and, as part of Kiddo’s birthday present/celebration, we took a family trip.   We asked Kiddo what she wanted to do for her birthday this year, would she want a party with friends or something like that and she said that she wanted to “take a trip with mumma and dada and just a family getaway.”   Can do! We headed to Moganshan and the bamboo mountains there.   We also got to Xinshi and the ancient town there.   It was a cool trip. The downside of it was that it was a holiday weekend in China, so a LOT of people were on the road.   Normally it would be about a 2.5 hour drive to cover the 160km, but with traffic it took 5 hrs.   UGGGG!   Thankfully we were on a bus as part of a tour group, so we could all just chill and read and not worry about traffic.   Kiddo had a blast and there were a number of other families and kids as part of the group, so she had peers to play with and pal around with while t...
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