Andy, maybe it's the little headache I have that prevents me from understanding part of your last post to my thread.

. . .low part of the roller coaster when things start to look up. . .

I like the content of the stuff being posted on your thread. This numbness fits it. Got to lose it so that I can listen, really listen. You too?

My H's ancestry is Spanish. He's spouting French phrases (I'm clueless) these last couple of months. At first my hackles rose because one of ow's son's names is Etienne (sp?) and I figured H and she spoke French together. I knew H's sister had studied French so I asked H and he said he'd had a year of it.
I'm realizing that H keeps his mind chock full of data so that he can avoid thoughts re the last year. I think a lot of his mental R work takes plae when he gets stuck doing some meticulus repetiive task. The French is just another way for him to dodge. Beautiful language but totally baffles me when I try to read it.