Comments on: Just don’t understand

By: sumgurl

sumgurl — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:17:38 +0000

i only ever see you in passing but i want to give you a big hug - cyber-wise, at least. i barely know you guys (i feel like a danged stalker right now) but i can’t stop worrying about you both … chin up. i’ve GOT to go to bed …

By: betty bean

betty bean — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:45:22 +0000

Sounds like she’s turned the corner, and I’m so happy for you and your family. Got here by way of Knox Views, and have been pulling for you constantly ever since. She will be very moved when she reads what you’ve written here.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:54:37 +0000

I have been reading your updates for many days now. To be honest, I feel a little intrusive when I read you very personal thoughts. Now, after prying into your life/blog, I want to write to tell you that you have touched my life and heart in an amazing way. I am a 35 y/o wife and mom to 2 kids. Two years ago my life/health took a drastic down turn. I completely relate to your frustrations about God or a higher power. I understand what it is to wrestle with the idea of someone I can’t touch or feel. Maybe I am a fair weather friend to God. I just don’t know. What I do know is that for me, sometimes rather that relying on a higher power, it’s easier to rely on what I know and can feel. You know your Wife is headstrong. You know she Loves your children. You know she loves you. You know she loves her family. She may look fragile and weak on the outside, but never forget she IS NOT a fragile and weak person. Don’t feel as though your anger and grief is wrong or weak. When in doubt of her strength, think of the last time she may have convinced you that you were wrong, when you knew you were right. Just please don’t underestimate yourself or all you are doing. She will not give up. Be pissed off. You have every right to be. Be sad. Be scared. But also be sure of her strength as a woman, wife, and mother to pull herself through this with or without the help of a ‘higher power’. She will.
And so will you. My thoughts are with you.

By: AdventureDad

AdventureDad — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:59:02 +0000

I would react the same way as you. I think too much hope can be devastating. At least to me. I rather be a little pessimistic on the outside but cautiously optimistic on the inside. That way I will not be too disappointing if I have a setback. Things always seem to take a wrong turn when I’m too cheerful or happy about something. Of course my wife calls me boring since she’s always optimistic.

Lets be cautiously optimistic. Things could be worse. Hope to read more encouraging news in the next few days or hours.

By: Vol Abroad

Vol Abroad — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:13:09 +0000

I’ve been thinking about you all.

By: Randall

Randall — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:27:28 +0000

Staying honest with who we are is the freshest brew we can drink. The buzz from this is higher than life itself. Here’s to BJ. Cheers!

By: Netmom

Netmom — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:56:51 +0000

Hang in there, AT. Yes, in a way, hope is harder… because you know it exposes you to the precipice of the rollercoaster all over again. But four liters of poison are gone from her now, and she’s stronger than she’s been in days. You know that your touch and your voice break through to her, and that sustains her.

So yeah, you’re in the driver’s seat. There’s ice on the road and you don’t know where the road goes, but she’s still with you. You can do it — bring her home.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:11:08 +0000

I wish I had something unique to say about this situation, but it’s all been said by many others. I just felt like letting you know that there’s somebody else reading, and sending you both good thoughts. Thanks for letting us come on the journey, I hope the news continues to be positive.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:23:27 +0000

Creatinine is made in the muscle. Normally, low levels of creatinine find their way into the blood, but the kidney filters most of this out and it is excreted in the urine. When kidney function is compromised, this filtering doesn’t work, and creatinine accumulates in the blood. So serum creatinine levels indirectly reflect kidney function.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:24:52 +0000

Sorry, forgot to say how wonderful it is to read that BJ is improving. Just wonderful.

By: GBscientist

GBscientist — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:57:50 +0000

AT, I know that your concern is real and deep, but wondering if GAC will want to be alive is borrowing trouble. Cross that bridge etc, etc. (I’m a fine one to talk, though. One of my favourite passtimes is panicking.)

Still, the Family is pleased with the news of GAC’s improvement. Will she be mad that she slept through the mid-term elections?

By: Atomictumor

Atomictumor — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:09:09 +0000

I thought many (well, a few) times about the election, and how it went down pretty much exactly as we predicted.
I didn’t vote, and she’ll get onto me about that, I predict. I can’t wait for that.
Everybody,l I want call each of you out by name and say something personal to you, because you touch me. I know you feel like you’re saying the same thing. Hell, I feel like I’ve been saying the same thing over and over.
Its good. Thank you.

By: The Bosphorus

The Bosphorus — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:02:43 +0000

Joel, Thanks for the explanation of Creatinine. It’s good to see your words.

By: RLGelber

RLGelber — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:03:01 +0000

I’m so so happy to hear the good news AT. Big fat cyber hugs to you!!