Carrying on

How many of you have a friend or relative who has been hospitalized with a severe condition?
How does it feel when you visit this person in their hospital ward? Add to that, how does it feel visiting someone in their forties, someone bright, a self starter, with a wicked sense of humor?
How about this: you're riding up the elevator to the floor your friend/relatives's ward is on, once again mentally preparing yourself to see a once-healthy person, bedridden with tubes running out of their body. Your preparing yourself to see a normally talkative person who is recovering from a stroke and can barely speak. How does it feel?
I'll never get used to it.
I have a friend name Bill who is recovering from a stroke. He was the creator and editor and chief of the Fire Alarm. I have been contributing photos to the site since its inception. While Bill has been in the hospital, Dan has been running the site.
Tomorrow is the Chicago Storm's first home game at the Sears Centre in weeks. It'll be strange not seeing Bill up in the press area, or hanging out with the Reignmen. (A supporters group.)