I know so many of you are waiting patiently for the next part. Thank you so much for that, but it's been a long time since I've been home, and with my family for a holiday without there being a hospital... so I really just hope you guys understand.I just want to be with my family for a bit. To hug them and make cookies and decorate the tree and figure out what to get my Mom for always being the rock in my life... for being my protector and fighter and everything I want to be in a person. I just want that family time that I didn't have for all the other holidays I missed out, Halloween, my birthday... I even missed Thanksgiving because they wanted me in to watch and check some things. I just want my Mom, my Dad, and my younger sister. I just don't want to waste the time that I've been given, I want to spend some of it on them...

I know it's a bit selfish, to leave you guys hanging... but I promise, after Christmas, I'll post a part. You guys have had the majority of my time for a while, and I just want to make sure my family knows how much I love them and appreciate all they have given up for me.

I really hope you understand. I really hope I'm not being too selfish.

But most of all, I wish you all Merry Christmas, or Hanukkah, or Winter Solstice, or Saturnalia, or Kwanzaa or if you don't celebrate any, just a joyous time.

Thank you all for sticking with me, and helping me so much over the past months.

'If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of' - Bruce Lee