From the man himself....

Everybody asks me to update Dara's blog, but it is hers and her outlet and she does an awesome job. However, I am going to break the rules this one time. I couldn't sleep last night...as usual and I decided to watch a movie that I have been wanting to see. It is based on Stephen Hawking's life and is titled "The Theory of Everything". If you know me, you know I'm a big old nerd and Stephen Hawking is the King of the Nerds. The movie is about time and the trials he and his wife faced with his battle with ALS. The comparisons I saw in my own life were uncanny...not that I'm near as intelligent as Stephen or that my own personal health issues are comparable to his fight and struggle with ALS. He and his wife never gave up and tackled every challenge, all while raising three kids. The sacrifices his wife made are eerily similar to the choices Dara makes for us every day. She gets up and goes to work at the crack of dawn, takes care of all the financial and medical decisions and issues, is raising two kids and getting one of them through college. She still stops at the store on the way home, comes home to make sure dinner is going, if not does it herself, and then goes to the gym. We truly are blessed to have her in our lives and I wanted to take this opportunity to say it...I love her. I always have, ever since I first laid eyes on her at church when we were just kids. The movies underlying theme was time...the subject that Stephen Hawking's life work and books were based upon. There never seems to be enough of it in the day, and when you're waiting on a heart transplant you learn to look at everything differently...especially time. We have faith and know that we will get a heart...in God's time. We just have to be patient. At the end of the movie, Stephen Hawking was invitied by the Queen to receive an award and he brought his wife and kids. His wife thanked him for making it a special day...he smiled and looked at his kids which were running around and playing and said "look at what we created". In the end, you only have so much time, use it wisely because we can't go back and we can't get more. In the end, you only have love....the love you give and the love you receive. I am a very lucky man as you can see, I may not have all the time in the world but I love with all my heart and my cup runneth over with the I love I have received.

~Trouper