Thank you all who have replied publicly or privately. I sincerely appreciate it.

I just got a call from my wife (Teri, BTW), and while she's hardly good, I can hear her in her voice instead of the emptiness I'd been hearing for months. She said that she'd been crying all morning, which I think is an improvement over, I guess, holding it in.

Thank you all again, and while we're not out of the woods by any stretch, I think that we can see the sun poking through the canopy (to unnecessarily extend a metaphor).

Keep thinking of us. Mostly her now. Now that I know that she's back to some extent, my mind is more at ease.