spike in COPED had taken me and, perhaps more important, where would that spike be when it settled back down into my new set of baselines.

Each time a new episode exploded upon a Fellow Copter such as myself, we are all acutely aware that loss of lung function has to be determined or, at the very least, considered.

If we had a lucky quick and relatively harmless incident, then old patterns would re-emerge and life would go on with only the nagging thought that something bad could have happened and the more optimistic outcome that shows a negligible downward pattern prevailed.

Either way, as Holly Hunter let Nick Cage know in Raising Arizona, things have Changgggeeeeddddd.

The whole point of all this is to make those of us who are threatened by change at almost every step along the way to find a way to deal, assimilate ad adapt while those who love us and can't, no matter how empathetic, ever really realize how much our lives can change.

14 days in the hospital this time. More narcotics introduced to me in order to deal with increased levels of pain are just two ares of change I will have to deal with from now on.

My advice to those who love us is simple; gives us the space to assimilate all the new new aspects of life and continue to love us unconditionally because we do try hard to love you in the same way we always have even though things have, indeed, changed.