Another New Year
Tue, December 31, 2019 Here we are at the end of another year and the beginning of a new one. Not only a new year but a whole new decade. Time to reflect on the past year and decide what I want to achieve in the coming new year.
I ended 2018 and began 2019 with a four-month course of Chelation treatment. If you remember three years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. I was tested for toxic metals, and found I had extremely high levels of Mercury and Lead and other toxic metals in my body. The Chelation Therapy was helpful in that it lowered the levels of all toxins by approximately half.
My condition has not worsened in the three years since my diagnoses and it some aspects it has improved. I take a very low dose of the prescribed medication, (One tablet a day, rather than the full three tablets daily.) I continue to exercise and maintain a strict, meatless diet. I still have a tremor in my right arm, but I can control it somewhat, and it does not stop me doing any I want to.
2019 was a busy year for my wife Kathy and me. We moved from Summervile, South Carolina, near Charleston and the East Coast, inland to Easley near Greenville South Carolina. It was this week after Christmas last year that we took a week off to visit Easley for the first time. In the months that followed we bought a new home and sold the old one.
We moved in June 2019, and we are now pretty much settled in, and putting the finishing touches to our new home. The Charleston area is a beautiful part of the country, but people are moving there in large numbers and traffic is becoming horrendous.
Plus, every time a hurricane heads towards the east coast the news media throws everyone into a panic, even though the threat might be 100 miles away. People evacuate, businesses shut down, gas stations run out of gas, etc., etc.
Where we live now, there is no threat of hurricanes, it is less populated, and is very rural, like living in the country. Yet we are only half an hour away from Greenville and all the retail shopping we would ever need. Our utility bills are cheaper, and we spend less on gas because we drive less, and spend less time sitting in traffic. I feel the move was a good decision.
At this point I would like to thank all my followers here and those on the Dave Moulton Bikes Facebook Group, for your continued support. My past requests for donations to help cover the cost of maintaining this blog and my Bike Registry, has this year exceeded my expectations.
For example, after my move, my computer quit, and it was necessary to buy a new one. There was enough money in my PayPal account, to cover this unexpected expense. This was largely due to your kind and generous donations. I appreciate your help and thank you.
This year I plan to attend the NAHBS Show in Dallas, TX. March 20 to 22, 2020. I will be giving a short seminar, and I hope to meet many old friends and make new ones. I am preparing by doing hour long brisk walks, as I know the show will involve a lot of standing and walking.
I wish you all a happy, healthful and prosperous New Year.
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"I wish you all a happy, healthful and prosperous New Year."
To you and Kathy too! Please keep up the very interesting posts.
Cheers Dave.
Thanks for the writing Dave.
I wish you and your family a Happy New Year, Dave. May the coming year (and decade) bring happiness and joy to your lives.
I'm glad to hear that you seem to have your health issues under control and that your move went well. I say that as a person who's about to close on a house in a more rural area of the place that we live in. Like you, we've got tired of the ballooning population and traffic in the city in which we live and have decided to move to a more remote area. I ride my bike in that area all the time, and soon I will live there. I imagine more bike miles in my future, and that's a happy thought.
Dave, It is good to hear about your plans.
Every time that I have moved as an adult it has been to a less populated area. That is a plan that I intend to keep up.
Perhaps I'll see you in Dallas.
Right now the mission that I have is to find a job. We will see where that leads.