Yes, Sarah, not too shabby at all! ;-)
Thanks to all of you for the kind words. Yesterday wasn't one of my better days. All of the hype surrounding the day didn't help much either. I spent part of yesterday reading over and over the card Kit gave me last year, on what turned out to be our last Valentine's Day together. She always chose the most appropriate cards. Even as sick as she was this time last year she still found time to select a card that said exactly what she wanted to say. Two stanzas stand out now:
I'm glad I have you
To dry my tears
To hear my thoughts
And calm my fears
I'm glad I have you
To help me cope
To share your strength
and help me cope
Even now I can't read that without tears starting to flow. This was just after she stopped chemo, after the cancer clinic told us that treatments were no longer slowing the disease. Less than two months later she was gone.
John