Don Burrow:  

Just a little update - July of 2009 I had a pretty narly get-off on my mountain bike, thought I'd jsut bruised my left leg badly...being the stubborn cuss that I am I never went to the Dr. or E.R. - I just went with it...so long story longer, I had to fly to D.C. for a work related conference, on the way out there my leg started REALLY hurting...after a couple days in D.C. I couldn't walk without becoming completely out of breath...on the advice from one of the Physicians where I work, I went to the E.R. - good thing I did...I had massive clotting in my leg, some of those clots had gone to my lungs. I had(have)multiple pulmonary emoblism's including, lucky me, a "saddle emboli" This has great curtailed my formerly pretty active lifestyle...once it warms up and Kat and I can get outside and hike and camp I think I'll really start to heal...so there's my update...back to the rest of the story..................... After I realized that school and "normalcy" wasn't for me I joined the Marine Corps and left KC in 1979. Have only been back a smattering of times. During those years I've lived/worked in 7 States and 5 countries, both in and out of the service. I settled down in Texas for 10 years, there I met and married my first wife, together we had a wonderful Daught...Expand for more