Thanksgiving

[Guest guest]

First of all, I myself wanted to thank everyone on both these lists for putting

up

with all our " sharing " of knowledge, and babbling cheerfully, and tearfully at

one

another, and doing it with great good grace.

I know, I forgot Canadian Thanksgiving this year, which in my case is really

stupid!

And Hal will think " Oh, there she goes, apologising again! "

But the truth of it is that we are so fortunate despite our dealing with cf,

that we have

landed on this ship together, making this voyage together, and holding one

another's

hands and mopping the occasional tear or two collectively, and laughing, often

at our

selves to gether. And grieving collectively. And moaning at the state or

non-state of

medical care together. But we all know how our paths brought us together form

near

and afar. We are a giant clan, and would support one another no matter what

came

our way.

And, besides that, we are entertaining in the midst of all this, even to the

point of

absolute hilarity as Agnes so marvelously demonstrated recently on conncoll, and

as Rosemary so often does on cfparents. Why are we not on television?

Well, we know why not, especially at holiday times! We are just too busy, if

only

with pulling our own bodies together! And I am thankful that Hal has attained

the

age that he as, Kathy hers, and I mine, and all the rest of you who have

had the nerve to pass 32!

But I am mostly thankful to all of you, many of whom are on both the

above-mentioned

lists. You are all a large part of why I feel thankful each day--though heaven

knows how

most of us will feel next Friday--those enzymes and proton-pump inhibitors are

going to

be more popular than ever!

I hope that you all have a good Thursday, 11/27/03, whether it be a holiday in

your

country or no. Let us just be thankful for one another.

Love to all at conncoll and at cfparents and to all who cope as we do with

cystic fibrosis!

Love to each of you, and thank you!

n Rojas, who has NOT been drinking!