Test Results Negative

Coker, Alabama

Weather: low 29 degrees, high 65 degrees, clear skies

This morning, the frost looked like a light snow. The roadsides and yards are starting to look like winter has arrived, with everything turning brown.

This was another slow day for us, but Carolyn received some good news from her doctor about the nodules on the calves of her legs that she has been having problems with. Many tests have been run, and so far, the results are negative. There are still a couple more tests to get results from. She goes back to the doctor in a week to have some stitches taken out. At that time, the doctor should have a treatment plan ready. At least we hope so.

Since things were slow today, we decided to try to find Greenbow, Alabama, Forrest Gump's hometown (again). We have made several excursions to try to find Greenbow recently, but have been unsuccessful. Remember how you stop at a place in the country for directions? The directions you get are usually like this: "Go down the road about ten minutes, make a right turn at the old oak tree that looks like it has been hit by lightning. After about a mile, make another right at the old barn that is falling down. Then go about two miles to the Baptist church on the left. Turn right and go about a mile to a sign post for Greenbow that points to the right. Turn right and go about three miles, and there you are at Greenbow."

Huh? Did you keep up with that? It sounded like the directions were describing a circle. And it feels like we have been running in circles when we look for Greenbow.

We did find one man living in the area who said that he had grown up with Forrest. In fact, the man said that he felt he could take part of the credit for Forrest being able to run so fast, because he was one of the bullies that used to torment Forrest when he had braces on his legs. He said he remembers the day when Forrest ran so fast that he ran out of the braces, and looked like a streak as he ran away from the bullies. The man said he regrets tormenting Forrest like he did, but he feels that God has probably forgiven him because Forrest has been so successful in life.

The man in the paragraph above lives in Reform, so he should know where Greenbow is, but his directions were not any better that the others we have gotten. It's almost like the directions are bad so we won't find the town. They wouldn't do that on purpose, would they?

More later, be safe.

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