Thank you everyone for your kind and supportive words. I know it doesn't seem like much, and I hate for us to have to meet this way (as someone already said), but it really is a relief for me to have come across this forum. It's like a window of light has been opened up- I am not alone on this journey, and I can and WILL do my best to beat this...and if I can't beat it, I will do my darndest to make my life happy!

Again, thank you for the warm words- they really do help put a smile on my face.