Thank you for this powerful piece, Darren. Your understanding of his illness and the way you conveyed it in this story is beautiful. I live my life according to the Serenity Prayer. While it is not always easy, I believe that everything can be handled through acceptance or the courage to do something about it. Everything. Once I started thinking along those terms, life became less overwhelming. In one of Deb's stories, she wrote about the notion that if you cannot forget, forgive, and if you cannot forgive, forget. I believe this idea is pretty much another way of stating that prayer. Anyways, thank you. This was a great way to start my day!