Dear Friend: Thank you for your words of encouragement. We are ten years agao from diagnosis, and doing O.K. There are lots of bad times, but we both see it as a new stage in our lives. It could have been me with a stroke, and he would have looked after me. But happily both of us, maybe because both of us had life-threatening problems (him with a heart attack, me with a serious blood disorder) in the mid-eighties, so we're both living on borrowed time, and enjoying it! It could have been worse. Everything is relative, I guess. k. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Karin M. Beros, MSO [log in to unmask] International and Area Studies voice: (510) 642-8542 Office of the Dean, 260 Stephens Hall fax: (510) 642-9466 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------