The Flu

This is day three with the flu for me that gets a little worse each day.  Body aches, head ache, sore throat, head and chest congestion.  The middle of the day is best of course…in the morning I feel like I weight 500 pounds and from 4:00pm on, I am fighting the urge to go to bed…gotta love flu season.  

I received an email with an interesting slant on Mike’s recovery and thought I would share it with you.  For privacy, I’ll leave out the author’s name. 

Rae, I was going to put this in Mike’s blog but I’ll tell you instead.  I
don’t believe in miracles.  I think they are an ancient way of explaining
what we don’t know.  In our past people gave the term miracle to a lot of
things we now understand through science.  In Mike I don’t see a miracle
what I see is the strength that was Mike all along determined to overcome a
tragic accident.  In a lesser person the outcome would have ended at Fairfax
Hospital or the results at Mount Vernon would have been less. 

I know a little of the time in your life when Mike was growing up and it wasn’t
always wonderful (you had a rough divorce and marriage before that) so Mike
learned to be tough.  The years of competitive swimming made him physically
strong and competitive (got that from David and you).  If anyone would
succeed against a Traumatic Brain Injury it was Mike.  I would not fair as
well in the same circumstance.  I give credit to Mike and to you and Bobby
and Nate and Emily and David and Mary and the very close friends Mike has.
It may be comforting to think a divine being reached down and touched him
but I don’t see it that way.  You created the environment that has permitted
him to make a super recovery.  Props to you and Mike.

To the sender…thank you.  We are strong individually, we are even stronger together.  LIVESTRONG Rosner/ Rosner-New/Whiting family.   

xxoo