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I became handicapped (I am a limited walker) in 1967, at the age of 41. Rather than spending the next 39 or 40 years in a nursing home, wallowing in self-pity and bemoaning my fate, I have — with my indefatigable wife — traveled to China, done Elderhostels with homestays in Mexico and France, spent eight months roaming around Europe at will and taken innumerable cruises.

Cruises are superb. You don’t have to pack and unpack as you move from hotel to hotel to hotel; the hotel does the moving while you remain conveniently located in the same quarters all the time.

Crews aboard...

I read Dr. Wagenaar’s excellent summary of medical websites in the February ’06 issue (pg. 93).

Some time ago I picked up in one of the medical publications to which I subscribe a reference to www.patientinform.org. At the time, it only led one to the cancer, diabetes and heart websites. Now, in its expanded form, one can delve into such sites as www.pubmed.com, www.pubmedcentral.com, www.freemedicaljournals.com and www.eurekalert.com. It is a very user-friendly site.

Its goal — “patientINFORM’s primary function is to educate and empower health care consumers with the latest...

Well, we finally did it, and I must say that there is not much of Egypt that we did not see! My husband and I, our son and daughter-in-law and our daughter and grandson started a 14-day independent tour of Egypt on June 24, ’04.

Our flights on Iberia Airlines were long, with very long airport layovers. In Madrid we had 10 hours, so we took the metro to the city and visited the Prado Museum. This was very easy to do, as our luggage had been forwarded to Cairo out of New York’s JFK and we stored our carry-ons in lockers provided outside the Madrid airport.

We arrived in Cairo...