Jim, ..so today is the make-up time from your cancellation last week? I will add you to my prayerlist. I hopehopehope that you get good news.

Yes, praying for each other is a good thing to do for each other.....there is strength in that....and it's a great use for the "time in the tube"!

For an MRI I had recently for an unrelated problem, I made music out of the bangs and pings and thumps of that machine. When the girl got me out and asked me how it was, I said that I thoroughly enjoyed it. She looked startled.

I guess I'm just an odd duck.....Who cares??? I think we've all earned the right to be whatever and however we want to be. I've learned through this ordeal with OC that even in the midst of this terrible diseaase, there are blessings galore. I think we all have discovered this to be true. Would we want these particular blessings enough to choose to have OC? mmmmmmmmmmm...... probably not, but at least in the midst of this misfortune, there can be glimmers of light.

The best blessings: you guys! ...and caring people here at home that I didn't know even knew me. and people praying for me who didn't even know me but believed strongly in the power of prayer, so that helped to strengthen my own faith in their prayers and to feel their strength. Yeah..blessings all around!!

(oops, I guess I got off-topic.....but that's what I felt like talking about right now.

I haven't heard anything yet from Marieka's family.

XO