It's been awhile friend...

As I embark on my next great adventure I realized that I haven't officially blogged in what looks like over a year.  In reality I have been writing monthly blogs as Word documents on my computer which are saved under the folder on my desktop "blogs".  Yet, somewhere along the way I developed a fear of posting them without taking the time to edit and review what I have written.  As you can see I have slacked off on reviewing what I have written making it worthy enough to post here.  Despite how this fear developed I need to get over it and starting right now.  Tomorrow morning at 2 am I am leaving from Kansas City to go to Falmouth Jamaica for a medical mission trip.  I don't know really what to expect, making me excited and nervous.  There is extreme poverty in Jamaica which adds another complexity to the treatment of patients.  I look forward to this challenge and doing what we can with limited resources.  I anticipate it will be much more of a learning experience that I can imagine sitting here now and will try to keep you updated when ever I get internet.  For now I am headed to bed for a couple hours before I have to aw