I also don't know any other way to say
it. I honestly came within a right turn of losing two of my best friends.
And as my own note, Suzie is doing well. After I was woken up at 7:30, I couldn't fall asleep, but I also couldn't just get up and go see her then. However, by 1:30, I got to see her (though the hospital's still quite finicky about visitors), and she was very alert, talkative, and high on morphine.
Yes, to answer questions, I do have her new landline phone number since she can't be reached on her cell while in the hospital. And yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, God, or leprechaun keeping watch over my loved ones.
