Hello, Blog world! I've missed you. It's been a whirlwind the last 2 months, and I really just want to collect my thoughts and express my feelings. For starters, I am so grateful for my life and all the people in it. I'd give anything for any of them. I've always felt that way, but I've never had a month like these last 2. I've been an emotional wreck since August 1. I watched, long distance, as a friend lost her little guy to cancer. It hit me hard. Why have I been so blessed? Why am I so lucky? My kids are all healthy. Whenever we do have something come up, it's never serious. I just haven't been tested that way. My sister, Julie, and I had recently been talking about this same subject. She was really young when our sister Debbie died, and I wasn't born yet. So we haven't really had to go through losing a sibling. My parents are older and have their ailments and scares, but they are both still here and highly functioning. And I still haven't lost anyone I'm really close to. But man, I feel like it's been close. At the beginning of August, Maeli fell while playing on a trampoline and broke her elbow. The local instacare sent me to Primary Children's because they are better prepared to help her, and she would probably need surgery. So we went to Primary's. They determined that her arm was definitely broken. It was a common break. They correct at least 1 a day, sometimes 10. So, our surgery was set for in the morning. Her surgery was to realign her elbow and place 2 pins. All went well. Walter was supposed to go to Canada for work that morning, but rescheduled for a night flight and joined me as I waited for her surgery to be over. We went to recovery and saw her starting to wake up. Walter started feeling a little faint. We walked with Maeli as they wheeled her back to her room. We got to her room and she was more awake and it quite a bit of pain. As I climbed into bed with her to hold her and try to help, Walter started feeling worse. He asked for oxygen. I tried my best to hook up an oxygen tube to the wall unit and turn it on, but nothing happened. I told him to sit down. He knelt down and put his body over a chair. He told me to get help. I ran out into the hallway and just started calling for help. I told a nurse walking by that my husband was about to pass out. Maeli's nurse was coming out of another room and I told her too. Almost immediately we had about 7 medical personnel in our room and Walter was passed out on the floor. He was making weird noises and his body was rigid. Maeli was still in her bed, so I just stood by her crying. I didn't know what to do. I have never been with Walter when he has ad a vasovagal episode. This was my first. It wasn't pretty. He was out for 90 seconds. Longest 90 seconds of my life. When he came to, they put him in a chair and gave him oxygen. They kept checking on him and after a while decided they should take him to the ER. So, I stayed with Maeli while he went and got checked out. Everything checked out, so they released him. Once Maeli's pain was under control we were all able to leave together. She had her soft cast for 1 week and then her hard cast for 3.