Tender Time

Dear Friends and Family,

Because Shelley no longer has the energy to focus on email communications (I haven't yet been able to read the last two days of emails to her but hope there will be a window of opportunity to do so today), I invite you now just to continue holding her in your thoughts and prayers that she might feel their presence and be warmed by them. Her low oxygen level plus her extreme tiredness makes it difficult for her to concentrate. She knows you have cast a wide "Shelley circle" around her and feels strengthened, encouraged, and comforted by the gift.

It is a tender and very precious time for us and, so far, most of the time my love is fairly comfortable. We have a bundle of new fluffy towels for her morning spas, five new flannel nities and an elegant new bed jacket to keep her cozy for those occasions when she is able to sit up in bed and hold court!