I see this is your first post......Odd subject for that isn't it? My first suggestion is that if you have any qualms about these threads, ignore them.

Almost two years ago, I wound up LifeFlighted to a hospital with a diassecting aortic aneurism. I was in a coma for five days and in the hospital for another two weeks at which time I went home overnite and returned due to a bleeding tumor in the small bowel, almost impossible to find, and I lost 14 pints of blood.......all in all, a near thing. During that time, many of the people here began the first of these threads and I was prayed over and worried about and sent good thoughts from a dizzying array of religions and belief or non-belief systems. What I did know was that a whole boatload of wonderful people gave a damn whether I lived or died. It is accepted in the medical world that attitude has a lot to do with treatment and if I felt better because I knew of friends that cared, numbering in the hundreds, then I am convinced that the power inherent in those thoughts helped me to still be alive to write this.

Since then, I have sent my own personal good thoughts to many others when things are down for them and I hope they feel as I did that messages of support and caring are an asset in getting through tough times. My wife Karen is currently hospitalized with blood clots in her lungs and the support for her and to her has been amazing and a big asset to her well being. She knows that more than a couple of people care about her and about her family and its made the hospital time much easier and the healing not so worrisome.

You don't believe in it, no problem mate. Don't participate. Convince you? How? Why? It bothers me not a whit what you believe or feel for yourself and its pointless to argue about it.

Spaw