"My Highland Dream" with thanks to JP Cormier
It has been awhile since I last had the urge or focus to write. I just read over two half hearted attempts that I made awhile back but never had the motivation to complete. I was in a very bad place mentally, physically and emotionally from November 2019 until December 2020 when we moved out of the rat race called Calgary to the quieter, smaller town of Cochrane in the foothills of the Rockies. I was still grieving the loss of my Panamanian dream and, then, having to move out of NS due to the dearth of doctors. As it turned out, doctors became even more of an issue than I had thought as Cancer invaded a lymph node in my groin in August 2020. Quick detection and surgery just before the worst of Covid hit got it out before things escalated, and I am now clean, but on a 5 year surveillance program. Nonetheless, realizing how lucky I was to have been able to access the care I needed in a timely fashion was the first step in my mental rehabilitation. I was still suffering ill effects fro