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Still here...yawn

Nope – I haven’t disappeared. Nothing’s wrong. I’ve just been super tired. So stinking tired! I’m so stinking tired of being tired. But, as I haven’t posted anything here in days (as if anyone is reading this anyway) I thought I might surface long enough to announce all is okay with the world. The thought occurred to me that this might be a good idea after sharing with the very first person, a fellow HPS friend, that I was toying with this blog.

“What do you think of the idea?” I asked after a lengthy explanation about my ill-defined goals, purpose and concerns that this would become a Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome whine fest. “I think it’s a great idea!” she so nicely replied. She then told me of a Web site she’d found shortly after her diagnosis that a man with pulmonary fibrosis had created. He was trying for a lung transplant and was using the Web site to tell his story. “Only thing is,” she explained, “The posts just stopped. It was kind of depressing. He probably died.”

So, lest anyone be worried that amongst all my whining something has truly gone wrong – nothing of the sort. Yes, I’m having some health issues, but they’re minor, annoying, and taking a back seat to the fact that our magazine needs to go to press at work.

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