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As most of you know, my wife experienced a serious health crisis, and it lasted much longer than I had expected.  She is home and getting up and around.  We are very happy and thankful for that and for all the prayers from the Raccoon-0-sphere. 

It was a strange couple of weeks, almost like being in a cocoon.  I lost it a few times, like when my daughter asked the doctor a question, and he answered honestly.  I appreciated why she asked, and I appreciated the doc's honesty, but I still had to go out and cry in the bathroom afterward.  It turned out not to be that bad, for which I am grateful.

Grateful, thankful, appreciative -- those adjectives and their verb and noun forms I have used a lot since last Friday. 

I prayed as much as I could, but there were times when I would run into dead-ends and weariness.  For ten days, I don't think I slept more than three hours out of any twenty-four.  I would doze off in the ICU occasionally, though the nurses are coming and going out of there with great frequency night and day. 

It was in those times that I would become aware that I was not alone, that I was leaning on the prayers of others, that the strength of others was enabling me to keep going.  I don't think I can ever be too grateful or too thankful to God or to you all.