Audrey Update, Sunday

We are so happy to report that is seems Audrey is on the road to recovery. Yesterday, she was able to keep down small amounts of broth & Cheerios. Today, she is eating bits of banana and toast, but still receiving IV fluids. Hopefully, this is a lasting thing so the nurse can remove the IV later today. We will still be on watch for the next 24 hours to see. Thank you all, again, for your love, friendship and concern.

Life is wonderful, but it also hurts. It especially hurts to watch one you love suffer. I wish I could protect her from all danger...but this reminds me of something C.S. Lewis wrote:

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.