Hi Clough. You know, some days a good and some days are not good. The positive things I can say though is that my dad's appetite has been coming back which is great, he still hasn't been drinking as much fluids as we try to get I'm to drink though. And my older sister is coming down from California November 11 for 1 week, which is another plus. So maybe she will also call more regularly? Any time I can get my dad to smile and my stepmom laughing is also very good. But other than that, I think I have been getting physically sick due to the stress of it all. My IBS symptoms have been coming back and I know I would never be able to adjust to my dad's illness, so that part makes me very depressed and sometimes absent-minded.