I started writing this blahg in June and now it’s the 7th day of July 
and you’re probably wondering what I’ve been up to or maybe you could care less. Well, either way, I’m going to provide an update. I don’t want to ramble on about the Polymyalgia Rheumatica. I still have the muscle pain but my Doctor and a specialist don’t think it’s PMR. I’ve been up and down with the medication and Doc has put me back up again so they can ween me off and then the specialist can see if it comes back and if he can figure out what this ailment is.
I had one goal in mind while on the Prednisone medication other than pain relief. That goal was to be able to walk and to specifically be able to walk my daughter Emily down the aisle on June 1st. It was a tough road but I made it and you can see by the new picture that I accomplished my goal. It’s been a tough year losing my Father and then a tragedy at work. Then the universe decided to throw in this mysterious illness so I had to pin my sights on one thing and tether myself to it. Emily’s wedding was the tether. It was a beautiful day and the rain held off and the ceremony and reception were awesome.
I’m not going to talk about anything else in this blahg. I’m going to share some photos and videos from that happy day. I know, it’s truly self-serving but the focus on the wedding kept me going and I’ll ride that for a while. Check out some of these beautiful photos and don’t forget to click on each image to see a bigger and clearer image in a new tab.
This is a really nice photo of my three children together. Abbie, Emily, and Noah:
I know it’s true nepotism but I had to share all of these photos. Here’s a nice one of Abbie and I that we took with my cell phone and played around with a black and white drawing filter to get what we wanted:
There aren’t many photos of Noah but he was taking a lot of photos and he did some video with his cell phone. Here are a couple of videos shot by Noah. The first is the wedding party coming in. The DJ asked us to ham it up. The second is a nice video of Emily and I dancing to Frank Sinatra singing the song “Emily”.
I think I gave a good speech at the wedding that summed up my road to being able to get to the wedding. I wish I had a copy of Charlie’s vows, which I reference in my speech, because he talks about an experience that challenged him and how he came back from it to discover Emily is the love of his life. I’m no Charlie but I think I hold my own in this speech:
Noah also shot some nice Super 8mm silent film at the wedding and I’m posting that below:
I think that’s it today. I’m a proud papa. I’m proud of all three of my children and my new son-in-law. I’m going to ride this wave of pride for a while. I’m on holidays in a couple of weeks so I hope to post a new blahg. Watch for it.