9-Aug-2010 (17 Days in Relapse)
Today is a milestone day for VC.  He has now been in relapse for as many days as his last remission.  "This flare up is considered over as soon as I have as many days in remission as I have in relapse."  That is his philosophy he tells me.  So now VC will start accumulating deficit days pushing his absolute recovery day further into the future.
   "Does today have an impact on your decision?"
   "On a long enough time line it shouldn't have any impact, but seeing how things are now, it definitely is a factor."
   "What is your decision?" I ask him directly.
   "[AC] and I made up our minds, and in light of what today is just reinforced that decision. One of us is going to have to give [H] the bad news....  she is going to have to put up with us for another season."
   "A few days ago you were concerned about this being difficult-"
   "Yeah its going to be hard, so is living with this [disease], maybe that's the point.  There is always going to be someone out there who has it worse than me, so may be I just need to suck it up and do it cause things can always be worse.  Remember: I am still trying to forget what having Crohn's disease feels like.  Until that happens, and as long as I am able.. I've got to keep on movin."  VC said that last part in a sing song type voice...

-xxxx