Because he had lost a good portion of one of his lungs as a child, my husband, Michael, took very good care of his health. He kept up with doctors' appointments for two important reasons. Although he felt healthy, he also felt he may be vulnerable to respiratory illness, due to his history of childhood bronchiolitis, and he wanted to keep on top of things, health wise. The other reason was that he loved his family, both his birth family and the family we had, and he took grea