The first six months after my "retirement", we were in a bit of a holding pattern.
After the trip to The Villages, we thought about retiring to Florida, but the weird letter about a Chinese person owing a home there gave us pause and we decided to take a bit more time with the decision about where to live long-term. (Note... we are fine where we are for now.)
We focused on staying relatively fit (keeping at the weights and walking), reading and reviewing the retirement literature. There are also many decisions... what to do with 401Ks, COBRA vs. Obamacare, how to set up withdrawals, etc. that had to be made.
I also began looking at retirement living options back in Lebanon County, PA (Where I grew up and where all of the family except my son still lives). We saw some homes we liked, but nothing that caused us to start the moving process.
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Then in mid-autumn as Vicky was getting ready to return to China for a few months, she noticed a lump. She had that checked out while back in China and we received the bad news... Cancer!
It turns out that China had a much shorter waiting period for cancer surgery so she quickly had the surgery over there and then returned to the USA in mid-December to have the followup treatment which has just started.
Retirement life is going to look a little different than we expected - at least for the near term.
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