Thanks everyone for your kind words. We both really appreciate it. It's a blessing to have such understanding friends and we are quite moved by your responses.
And Matthew says thanks for the birthday wishes. I was going to start a birthday thread for him yesterday but then this happened and I never got around to it. It really sucked to have this happen on his birthday but that's how life goes sometimes.
Anyway, thanks again.
And a special thanks to iSm for resisting what must have been a major temptation.