Thank you.

One thing that gives perspective to think of the effect on my wife.

We took vows for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, for better or worse. Well, my stroke gave her poorer, sickness, and worse all at the same time.

She has had to watch her previously capable husband become a wreck, unable to stand or walk or speak coherently. That was on Christmas Day, 2018.

For a long, long time after that, I needed her help to get dressed, eat, and do about everything. Plus, she has had to witness my fight with pain, insomnia, and even more pain, and be unable to do anything about it.

Still, she loves me, and every step back from that has been a reason to celebrate.

For me to see her so exhausted yet still be able to look at me lovingly after all that...how ungrateful would I have to be not to appreciate that?

I need reminding now and then, but I am a very lucky man indeed.