What a harrowing ordeal! Yet the honesty and detail of your account was riveting. And then I could feel your relief and was so impressed with how Stella just bounced back into happy once it was resolved. And the human kindness of the flight attendants. So many emotions you were dealing with, yet you were able to hold steady and take care of it and not break down and fall into a puddle in the aisle. Do you know that you are a hero? That's what heroes do. The thing that struck me most about the video was how cumbersome and complicated, yet there you were--an expert. How odd the things we become experts at when necessity intervenes. Even though we never in a billion years would have wanted to be an expert at them. I have no doubt the realness and honesty of the environment and all of you in the video will be of great help to other caregivers who never wanted to be experts at this, either. But how much better and more important to see what it's like in real life instead of just in an orchestrated "instruction" video. And thank you for another glimpse of Stella and her sweet soul. God Bless you, Hans.

Medical equipment nightmare- nemesis. It's so nice to see Stella here. Thank you Hans.

Thank you for sharing this story. And video. Love you ❤️ hug

Oh man that video. I'll admit, I watched the first minute and then.....scroll scroll.... watch watch...looking to catch a little glimpse of our Stella. I feel ashamed to say this - but I forgot just a tiny bit how sharp and immediate she was! I saw her after school started in those precious few days back to school during this détente. I was running into class to pickup the South end crew for carpool. I was a few minutes late and Stella was there in class with Skye hanging out. We laughed a minute about that insane carpool day nearly one year earlier where it took us like 2 hours in the snow to inch home. On that day, before the news, before the sickness, we had listened to Queen really loud and rolled down the windows for the snow. Seems like something out of a dream, from another path in the multiverse.

I am not sure why that last day seeing Stella at school sticks so vividly in my mind -- probably the trauma of the news that came next.

Your description of the urgency on the plane just made every single task I have on my plate today seem easily surmountable, and I vow to get through that shit without complaint! I love you guys.

That last glimpse… Stella Blue… my heart… thank you for still sharing and in all of that , trying to help others. ❤️

OMG. ALL LOVE. So much love.

I find all your posts wondrous, Hans, but somehow, I find this one particularly wondrous -- it's something about the combination of the story you tell, the description of each one of you working through the incredibly tense, difficult situation, and then watching the video. Seeing all the steps you take in a focused, but matter-of-fact way, and then seeing Stella at the end -- watching the comfortable, easy conversation between the two of you. If you hadn't offered this up to us to watch, I'd feel like a voyeur. But you have offered it up, and I watch it so closely, so intently and again, with wonder and gratitude and then more wonder. Love.