Love Amplified: The Power of the Internet

Update: November 21 – she came through the surgery and is progressing well, which is awesome because there were factors that made the surgery even more high-risk than it normally is. Thanks to all for the good thoughts, emails and Tweets.

Another update: November 28 – things got real scary on the 23rd when she got bounced back to ICU, seriously unstable. Finally OK again and might get to graduate out of ICU in a few days…what a ride. Huntsville Hospital staff and Dr. Newton – you rock.

My mother-in-law is having open heart surgery tomorrow (Friday, November 20.) Thanks to the Internet and its facilitating my worldwide personal and business connections, I am able to take her this note to the hospital today:

You have people in at least five countries, and coast-to-coast in North America praying for you and sending you positive thoughts, to wit:

• Two Catholic nuns in Michigan.
• A software developer in Romania.
• An entrepreneur in Los Angeles.
• A web designer in Vermont.
• A lawyer in Brooklyn.
• A software developer in England.
• A writer in New Zealand.
• A professional speaker in Louisiana.
• A nurse in Rome, Georgia
• A software developer in Germany
• A Realtor in St. Louis
• A lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama

Thank you, worldwide community. Technology may empirically be cold and it’s easy to take it for granted in 2009, but I and my family feel like we are standing by a warm fire.