Christmas 2022

  We couldn’t get a “Christmasy” family photo and get cards printed on time. So here's a poinsettia that Denise painted, and the rest is our poor excuse for a Christmas card. We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary this year. I thought I'd become a widower in 2005-2006 during Denise's marathon hospitalization from Valley Fever. So at this milestone I've got to express gratitude to all the family, friends, neighbors, church siblings, coworkers, medical professionals, and strangers that carried, prayed, and worked us through the crisis. You're part of why we could celebrate that anniversary! Denise is grateful for life, even with the lifelong secondary effects of coccidioidomycosis (the fatigue is real, as are the skin issues, probably from the years of voriconazole use before switching to fluconazole in 2020). Her dermatologist prescribed a course of PDT (photodynamic treatment). We hope that it starts to heal all the skin lesions. I did not attend the Cocci Study Group in Bakersfield so do not have a pulse on the latest developments.