A smile

March 16, 2008

Hi all,

Sorry about little-to-no posting (and little-to-no reading posts as

well, I'm afraid). I've been, and am, busy, busy (deadlines flying at me

like a flock of birds... but it's mostly fun, so no complaining

here...).

But I am making a quick de-lurking because I came across a video on

youtube today that I saw for the first (and second, and third etc) time

around that scary period of time when (my wife, for those of you

who don't know me) was admitted to hospital with an unknown, and

possibly fatal, diagnosis, that in the end turned out to be the at least

very survivable MS that so many others of you here are familiar with.

ANd that made me think of you, and wish to send the video on to you.

During those days I would watch this video several times a day,

definitely in the morning before starting the trip to hospital to see

, and certainly in the evening, when returning home. Despite the

depressing circumstances it was just impossible to watch it and not

start laughing out loud - or at the very least smile widely. It was a

remainder of the many, many " small " things in life we usually miss or

take for granted (at least when we get older and stop being kids). And a

lesson that taught me that if this baby could find such hysterical

laughing material in his father imitating the sound of the

microwave-oven, then how much don't I, even in times of distress, still

have to laugh at.

Or, in fewer words, life is to short not to laugh at all the funny

stuff, let that laughing baby in you out! For those of you here still in

that scary place of no diagnosis, or in other scary and dark places in

life, do let this guy give you a smile back:

love

/Reb

PS. The words on the screen in the beginning- " Kan man ha roligare?? -

is Swedish and means " Could one have any more fun than this?? "

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