I hope ls doesn't mind my posting this here, but I honestly respect and love the little blue guy!

For those who aren't aware or have forgotten, we nearly lost him six years ago when he was really ill and the video gods nearly took him home. He posted his thoughts about the anniversary of his hospital stay today:

Prayers and cares to the little blue guy!

"Exactly 6 years ago I was laying in a hospital bed, unknown what the future would look like. For weeks, I had slowly been losing control of my limbs. First dexterity, then eventual paralysis. I was losing my vision, and light hurt what little I had left. Internals started to cause issues, if you know what I mean. Test after test had weakened me, especially the multiple spinal taps. Doctors didn't know what was wrong, and as my body was slowly failing, death was still on the table.

So there I lie, alone in bed in a dark hospital room, nothing to do. (The glow of TV hurt my eyes, and I couldn't see it anyway. Plus listening to commercials was more torturous than silence).

Waiting for the unknown.

Patience.

I heard it snowing hard outside that Christmas, but the bright white was too harsh for my eyes. I never saw it. Severe weather that year kept away visitors more than not. My only Christmas gift was a large chocolate chip cookie.

A week later, I heard the nurses outside my room on New Year's, counting down the seconds to a year that I didn't know what lie in store for me.

That was then..."