Wednesday, 3/16 - Nothing too new

Lyn here. Just thought I'd post a "hello" to everyone. Eric is hanging in there... He is not strong enough to get out of bed anymore and he sleeps an awful lot. But when he is awake he still jokes around in his usual corny way. He loves it when I read him his e-mail so please keep those stories about your world coming.

We've been watching LOTS of TV on the big ol' plasma... I am so glad we got that thing because Eric can actually see it still. Our favorites of late have been watching old Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry on the Boomerang network, and Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC) and old CSI's on Spike. SpongeBob Squarepants goes without saying... we tune into that regularly because we're silly, silly people. We also just finished watching the DVD set of "Firefly," a very short-lived TV series by Joss Wheadon (creator of the Buffy series). (Thanks for the loaner, Will & Lynne!) It was an excellent show, even though we never caught it when it was being broadcast. Sort of a space western... very character-driven, and not much like science fiction since there's no aliens, just people. Movies have also been a nice diversion. We highly recommend "Open Water" but didn't like "The Grudge" at all. The SpongeBob movie was pretty bad, too, although there were some funny moments. I finally saw "Life is Beautiful" and it was as great as I'd heard. Last night we watched one of the newer James Bond movies that we hadn't seen, after which Eric declared Halle Berry to be a fine-lookin' woman. :)

No new news on Eric's condition. Each day he is a bit weaker. His eyes hurt most of the time so it's hard for him to read, and he's got weird visual disturbances again. For the most part, he is not in pain and sleeps pretty soundly. These are important comforts for him.

Thank you for the letters and cards you've been sending. Eric is very touched when you share rememberances and such personal feelings... it is a beautiful thing for him to know these things while he is still with us.

I'm often asked how I am ... I'm doing the best I can. Taking care of Eric is tiring, but there is nothing that I would rather be doing than caring for him. I cherish every minute I can spend with him even if it's just fixing his wrinkled sheets! We have such wonderful support from family and I would really lose my mind without that. But I am OK. I've even been cooking a little bit because, although he can't eat it, Eric seems to enjoy the smell of food cooking in the house.

We've been sorting through tons of photographs lately. (Thanks to all of you who sent some!) So I'll leave you with one of the photos we love from our wedding day:



Until next time...