Okay, my pain level is down to two on a scale from one toten, but only if I don't do anything with my hands. Yesterday, I made macaroniand cheese from scratch for dinner and it just about destroyed me. So, I'mwriting this with my Dragon software and my daughter will cut and paste to myblog.

Exciting news!
My husband's airline is moving us to Maine! This is veryexciting yes I do love Alaska very much and will miss it terribly. This morning Iwas looking out the window and wish it would snow and it did! I love to watchsnowfall first thing in the morning. I'm told Maine gets lots of snow too, butthey don't have polar bears. They do have puffins though!   http://projectpuffin.org/
With my daughter's help, I hope to post an update about oncea week. It's not very easy. Every time she laughed Dragon writes what she'slaughing that I tell her to stop laughing at a right something totallydisgusting and into out more energized by what she's laughing again and writesomething stupid! The little children running and screaming behind us a Dragontries to write what they're screaming about. Daughter laughs and it tries to write that.  Heavy sigh. Dragon needs a special device toscreen out the background noise of large herds of offspring.
At the next update wish me well, pray for me, and send goodvibes. I do check e-mail about once a day with help of course.  I miss writing my stories, but I am working on them in my imagination.  Hopefully, this chapter in my life will enrich and deepen my stories so they'll be lots better than they might've been otherwise.