P.S. Rae. Your son Max loves you...
Right back atcha, Surrogate Son! I've missed having you young uns posting here. This "old timer" needs to know you are still "fighting the good fight"...after all, when those of us who are "over the hill" have really gone over the hill, who's going to be here to continue to carry the message!?!
BTW...my Actual Son, John, has five months clean and sober...has moved from a VA hospital in Bath, N.Y. to the New Jersey Veteran's Administration Medical Center at Lyons, New Jersey. It's been a long, hard 20 years or so for him battling the drugs...I often wished he had just been a garden variety alcoholic like his Mom and Dad, because his drugs of choice really kicked his butt! But, miracles do happen, Thank God.