I also got quite choked up
talking about the difficult year my family and I had around health
stuff. Specifically my recent hospital stay with pneumonia, Serene's
thyroid operation and Carol's gall bladder surgery. The past year has
been really difficult for all of us and very hard on my self image.
I've said often that this year was my most emotionally difficult year
and yet it was the year that I felt most loved. I found myself crying
and was very comforted by sio, Teresa, Roxanne and even Aahz.

Let me add that you showed how much you love your loved ones and how much they love you. This was the part where I really thought: serenejournal and loracs know this of course, but I will tell them how warm you talked about them!