New beginnings

So this is the beginning of I hope to be many posts, not from me, but from my dad and mom and sisters. My dad is retired from the USAF, and now spends a few days a week helping people at Home Depot complete their home plumbing projects. Have you ever met a person that just makes the world a better place by just being alive? That's my dad. He is a wonderful father, friend and papa, and I am so proud to have him as my dad. When he was diagnosed with dementia last fall, I questions why God would allow this to happen to one of his faithful servants... why my dad? While I still don't fully understand this, I do know there have been blessings that have come from this, like time spent together, and others that I will go into more at a later time. This week my dad is at the Mayo clinic having many tests run to ensure that his diagnosis is correct, and that we are not missing something. Unfortunately frontal temporal dementia is untreatable, but if the symptoms he is experiencing happen to be the MS, this is treatable. Due to my own life challenges that lead me to surgery last week (you can read of these at my family blog), I was disappointingly unable to go. So my mom and dad left yesterday and the tests began today. I am hoping this blog can keep family and friends informed of where we are in the journey God has chosen for our family.