I spend several hours this morning with a retina specialist and surgeon, and had all kinds of test done on my eyes, from dyes injected into my blood to trace my vessels to blinding macro photographs and then met a male doctor who actually speaks to his patients, a welcome and refreshing change.

He does not believe that I have any vision problems, he said my vision is excellent, we did find some broken vessels that might or might not be related to diabetes or heart troubles. He said there was no reason to do anything severe know, but that down the road, I might be getting regular eye injections.

But not yet and not now.

For now, my vision is perfect and he only prescribed  some special eye drops. The condition I had – distortion in my life eye – seems to have disappeared. So I have full clearance from the eye surgeon and the cardiologist to get about my business and get to New Mexico next week.

We are going for eight days and we will both be blogging from there, you will get no respite from me. Both of these issues could have serious and disruptive, I have skirted past both of them unscathed. A fitting ending to a magical Open House.

This does not mean I am in poor health. It means I am human and growing older. For me, that is not a crisis it is life.