If I've hit prince status, the value of royal titles must be in the crapper!!!

Ed started with a stomach bug. Or something. Don't know, likely never will. Couldn't keep solids down. Then couldn't keep liquids down. Got zofran, kept him hydrated for a few days. Then couldn't keep anything down, including his meds (and suddenly stopping seizure drugs is bad mojo).

Off to urgent care, very nice young doc there said all he could do was throw more anti-nausea meds at it, really belong in the hospital for scans and IV fluids.

Off to the ER, get through there pretty quickly all things considered. Couple days of bed rest, IV fluids, and bad television later and Ed can eat again so we got to bring him home yesterday. Don't know why, or what changed. Kidney doc came to see him and said it is possible that stomach bug caused dehydration, which caused his already craptastic kidney function to falter even more, which could cause nausea.

As to the value of Darling Wife in terms of blessing - absolute 100% greatest thing that has ever happened to me. No question.

Then again, with no Darling Wife, there'd have been no in-laws to care for

Wouldn't change it for any reason. Life is good, and learning the Darling Wife "it's just an is.... it's what you do. They're family, you take care of them" state of mind (more than a value, more than a belief - as she says - it's just an is) has been a huge change in so many ways, all of them positive.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife