Sometimes I close this blog with, “show those you love how you love them.” I am a firm believer that actions speak louder than words. It is one thing to tell someone you love that you love them, but doing something for them in a caring, gentle manner is better. You don’t have to say, “I love you,” but your actions show it.

So today, I am letting my actions speak for me and speak to my spouse who remains ill with a relapse of his long-term infection.
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This is a brief update about my spouse who has had an awful relapse of the infection that took him out last year.

I wrote a post, “Lookin’ for Happy” on December 6, stating that my spouse was not able to walk or eat much. He was so sick…

But one week later, we have reasons to be hopeful.
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Surely, I know that title will attract attention. But my spouse said it, loud and clear: “it’s over!”

What is over? As in done, finished, kaput?
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I have been hesitant to post anything on this blog about my spouse’s ongoing health condition as he continues the fight to recover from the serious long-term infection he had all last year… mild recovery… relapse, and now… in his own words,
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I am truly sad, upset, and angry by the evidence. Evidence of return of three ugly, nasty, awful yet invisible monsters.

What monsters?
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Monday 18 February was a holiday — so no going to work, but I worked hard nonetheless. I broke down and put on a suit & tie with a nice pair of Lucchese Classic black cowboy boots, and attended a medical convention at the request of my fiance’s primary care physician. I was invited to give a presentation to about 300 doctors about what it is really like to be a healthcare advocate on the “front lines” every day about a disease that many in the healthcare community believe is not as bad as it is, or some who even believe that the disease does not exist.

In the not so distant past, I was labeled…
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