" Let me tell you about my best friend"

01-21-2009.
0359 hours


Email sent and replied last evening.


Good evening Dr. Doherty,
Just a quick question. Now knowing your schedule at the hospital, would it be asking to much to have some updates by email or such regarding Dar's condition/progress as it pertains to her body recovery and brain recovery, while I am displaced from her before the week-ends. I have called in the evenings, don't get too much info as to daily progress, maybe I am not asking correct questions. I know Dr. Waters takes care of Dar's physical needs and we communicate daily. Just hopeing to hear news from your perspective, your area of expertise during the week if possible. Don't mean to be a pain. It is just very hard being
seperated from my best friend, I miss her alot.

Danny

hi there.
i will email you anytime there is a measurable change - one way or the other. generally, i don't get much into my email on wednesdays, thursdays, or fridays because i work such long long days. however, if there is any significant change i will let you know.
take care and hang in there.
dr. d

1821 hours

Spoke with Dr. Waters this evening and Dar is stable and not much new to report. Dr Waters had not seen Dar today as Dr. Doherty will be seeing Dar the remainder of the week.

I reserved a room at a local motel for Saturday and will be with Dar this week-end. I have to tell you that I now know how you folks must have felt waiting to read our posts and what new things might have happened. This totally sucks not be able to be around for the play by play. I am just like you waiting to hear of new things that Dar might be doing. At the price of lodging in Marin County motels could get real expensive.

Again I graciously and humbly ask that if anyone knows someone that knows someone, that maybe has a driveway or a back lot or something of that nature that might accomodate our trailer I would be forever in your debt. The hospital has arrangements with a couple of the higher rate hotels in the area but they are well over 130 bucks a night. Real estate is big bucks down there, I learned that Sean Penn, George Lucas and Senator Finstien all live right near the hospital. What does that tell you, I checked a couple of the trailer parks in the area and they want around 700 bucks a month. Pretty darn steep when I would only be there a couple nights a week if I had the trailer, but for now Dar is real busy during the week and if I am there Sat-Sun, one motel night is not bad.

Please bear with me in the days to come as our "posts" may take on a different hue, me being displaced just like you. The motel I will be staying at does have "wifi" internet so that will be a good theraputic tool in the evenings. The hospital, unfortunatley does not have it and all the ones I pick up in the area are pretty well "firewalled". I guess I will just have to get "McGiver'ish" .

I guess I will just have to start telling you stories about how Dar and I met or some of the places we have been. Just kidding. Maybe.

I know I have said this many, many times and will probably continue to say it, you have know idea how you have made me feel over this last very soon to be 1 month. The folks that I have heard from, the church groups that I have heard from, and even from some folks I have not a clue as to who they are.

The special words, the swift kick in the butt when I get low, the special prayers, the word of encouragement, the offers to help, the invitation to call should I need it, the offer of a cup of coffee so I can just take a break if but only for a moment. You have no idea and can't begin to know how these offers have made me feel.

I will tell you this, and so will Dar, I am as stubborn as they come and to ask for help is not in my make-up as a general rule. One thing I have learned and that the "man upstairs" has proven to me latley is this. I cannot do this one on my own and that I had better swallow some pride and if I need to ask then I should ask.

I do, I do, appreciate each and every offer of help and encouragement that you all have given to Dar and I. I thought I had been through some rough things before ("more often than not, I've landed on my feet") but they don't hold a candle to this one. I could never in a million years thought I would be where I am today and really learning "who Danny is", so far I like who looks back at me in the mirror.

I truely believe that Dar has played a big role in the shaping of who I am becoming, only married 3 plus years Dar and I have been over many hurdles together and have always overcome them and come out winners, This hurdle will be no exception,

Rest well my fellow travelers, much more to come, "we love you all"

Darlene, "I love you and miss you" , Maverick misses mommy too,

Good night for now, rest well my friends

Love,

Dar/Danny/Maverick