A Few Words of Thanks

First, thank you all for the very kind notes… so many now. I will share each of them with my father and my sister Alden when she comes, and of course Amacker too when she’s ready.

Thank you to all of you who are organizing various sweet projects to make Amacker’s life more comfortable when she leaves the hospital. I hope I can come by and help.
Thank you to Marianne for the love and very sweet care package today. I’m such a dork that I was most excited by the Photoshop backpack it came in, but the cookies were yummy, and the games will keep all of Amacker’s visitors and Amacker entertained for weeks to come. There were other goodies in there, too. Maybe with the nice moleskin blank-book I can take notes and actually put real names to phrases like “rock-star surgeon” and “night nurse.” Oh, and I’m not sure I have the chutzpa to pull out that magazine in a hospital, but if I have to bribe that old guy in the corner for anything…

Thanks to Aaron and Tim and especially Don for holding down the fort with Amacker’s home and pets. We’re very grateful for that, since Dad and I have been trading recipes for years for how to cook that bird if it every bites either of us again. (Joke. We know she only bites us out of love…?) And thanks for offering so many times to help.

And thanks to those closest to us for holding our hands when the nights seem longer than they should…