<p>Jdjaguar, we are here for you. We have supported lateforschool in her struggles, grieved together when she lost her battle, provided support for several members who lost spouses, etc. We want to provide support for you & your family - don’t stop posting. We are invested in your lives now.</p>
<p>jdj–your courage in sharing as you have on here is inspiring. please know that is what we see in you, not negativity at all.</p>
<p>Thoughts and prayers with your son & you & your family.</p>
<p>This thread has made me think of a song we sang so long ago: Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend.” It still seems to powerful. May love and friendship continue to sustain you.</p>
<p>(((HUGS))) to you. Please keep posting, if it helps. I don’t find your posts depressing at all and, in fact, you give me hope that if something similar were to happen to my son that I could handle it as well as you.</p>
<p>My thoughts will remain with you and your family.</p>
<p>Please keep posting. And - sorry for telling you something that you probably already know but - some doctors are reluctant to “overprescribe” pain meds because there is so much scrutiny and pressure on them not to overprescribe. Please actively advocate for your son if he is feeling any pain. Pain slows down healing and can cause body depression, so adequate pain control will help aid in your son’s healing 
Thank you for sharing this with us all.</p>
<p>i know and feel the strength of this community…i will keep posting.</p>
<p>thank you all so much for your support…</p>
<p>but for now I must sleep…for sleep has been naught for many nights.</p>
<p>bless each and every one of you.</p>
<p>Sweet dreams tonight, JD.</p>
<p>I hope that you can get some rest, jdjaguar. How is your wife doing?</p>
<p>I am glad that you will continue to post. This community would not be the same if it were only a place to celebrate the triumphs. It is a place for us all to come with whatever is going on in our lives, and know that we will give and receive support, advice, suggestions, thoughts, inspiration. We are all caught up in your son’s situation now.</p>
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<p>I tried to read this outloud to my husband but the tears stopped me. It is truly one of the best celebrations of life I have ever read. It’s amazing how just a few small words can sum up everything that really matters. </p>
<p>Your family is in my heart.</p>
<p>Best wishes here for him to stay strong through physical therapy.</p>
<p>I just now opened this thread and read each and every post! Words cannot express the sorrow I feel for the senseless savagery you son has experienced. Please know that you and your family are in my heart and prayers. I’m so glad surgery went well, and that he retains his all important eye sight. I’m so glad, too, that you will continue to post. We are all now so heavily invested in your son’s story, and hold you in our hearts. It would be torture not to know how he’s doing—how your whole family is holding up! It helps us to better direct our prayers. And there’s nothing “negative” about your posts. They are amazingly positive, given the circumstances. I don’t think I’d be nearly as positive, and would probably be nearly out of my mind with rage and anguish. You must feel free to post whatever it is your need to express. No one will judge you poorly for it.</p>
<p>I’m so happy to hear that you are now able to rest. Get as much of it as you possibly can, and tell your dear boy that many, many people are holding him in the light.</p>
<p>I’ve been on a plane all day, and just logged on at my destination to check up on you. I echo all the rest and say, don’t stop posting. We are all here for you, and it is uplifting to see when so many people really truly care about others, even if we may never know each others’ names. </p>
<p>Someone referred to latetoschool…I think you’re new here so you probably didn’t see, but she was an amazing woman who lost a senseless battle with cancer. She shared things on here, that I doubt if she told anyone else, but she said that it helped to get all her feelings out. We’re hear for you. I hope tonight is a restful one for all of you.</p>
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<p>Please do not do this. We all want to help you and your family in whatever small way we can. This forum is a place where people can share both the joys and the sorrows. Please don’t think that you are burdening anyone.</p>
<p>wishing you a good sleep tonight.</p>
<p>Sending best wishes to you and your family. I hope that the morning brings less pain.
Wish I could send a blanket of peace for your family.</p>
<p>It is amazing how much this virtual support system can help. I am happy to be here when you need to vent.</p>
<p>Good Morning to you jd!!! Just caught up with the updates. Your emotions will rise and fall but please know so many of us here understand and continue to keep you and your family in our hearts and prayers. Find strength and peace where you can! This forum is, indeed, a place where you can share the ups and downs. We all have bad days, express doubt and get angry. Hope this morning brings some comfort from the pain for your son and that you can feel all the virtual hugs and warmth sent to you and your family from the rest of us out here! Take care! :)</p>
<p>jd, I would feel the “cold eye” feelings too if I were in your place. It is the hardest thing to see your child in pain. Keep posting. I hope each day gives you a new reason to rejoice in your S as he recovers. Prayers for comfort.</p>
<p>Thank you, jd, for continuing to post. Many here are emotionally caught up in your story and hope to follow it through your son’s successful recuperation. </p>
<p>You are so very right that his being alive and his eyesight being preserved are things to be grateful for. It could so easily have been even more tragic. You are demonstrating a great deal of emotional intelligence. </p>
<p>But please feel free to vent here as well; I sometimes think of CC as free therapy LOL!</p>
<p>Best wishes to your son for the ups and downs of the days ahead. We will be urging him on.</p>
<p>I read this thread everyday…and all of us have stronger and positive thoughts of hope, optimism, and prayers for the recovery of your son. Tomorrow we will be here again and our positive feelings for your family will be even more powerful!!</p>