So many folks have their thoughts, prayers, and memories up on their website.

I have only one that concerns me this day -- that from Thanksgiving 2006.

For those of you who read me at the time, you probably remember the trauma that was last Thanksgiving.

For those of you who did not, I share my post from the evening of November 23, 2006 -- and the updates that followed.

This Thanksgiving has not been one of turkey and trimmings -- this morning as I prepared "Big Bird" for the oven, my dear wife began vomiting blood. She is now resting somewhat comfortably in ICU with some sort of GI bleed.

I ask the prayers of any and all readers -- friend and foe -- for Paula's complete and speedy recovery. And I ask, too, for a prayer or two of thanksgiving that there are dedicated medical professionals available this day -- one which most of us take for granted as a day off for feasting and football -- to aid in her recovery.

And may God send his richest blessings down on each and every one of you who reads these words and responds to them, as I especially give thanks this day for the greatest worldly blessings he has given me -- my beloved.

I didn't share the information at the time, but the situation was, in fact, more dire than I let on. I was told by the folks at the hospital that a delay of even one hour of getting her to the hospital would have probably resulted in Paula's death from blood loss. When you consider the six units of blood she got in the first 36 hours in the hospital, you know how low she really was.

What am I thankful for this year? That I still have the woman I love with me. Nothing else really matters.

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