Damn, Mick! You & your family are now the poster family for the newest "Murphy's Law" calendar. Murphy himself told us: "Whatever hits the fan is not distributed equally." Are you sure that some other Lane family around there is not wondering why life has seemed so easy lately?

   Forgive my dark humor...I, like all these other folks who know you and just hope & pray for it all to ease. If there is any consolation in all this, it is that your dad IS recovering slowly, and that Ciara is also...and that, as said, your mom was capable of getting herself to a hospital....and finally, that you DO have not only your own amazing strength and deep reserves, but also so many people you have met thru Mudcat to send every possible form of prayer & thought for healing and support. (even in a sentence like that, you know what I'm trying to say.)

As they say, and as I know you will - "Keep on keeping on!"