Yay indeed, I am so relieved! I was afraid it would never get finished for a while there, and I'd already put so much work into it - plus it's one of those stories that I really wrote because I want to read it, and other authors persist in not writing it. ;-) No doubt there will need to be a lot of changes before it is generally comprehensible, but I have high hopes it will be postable in the not too distant future! (And if you have the time, could I possibly take you up on your kind offer to be a test reader...? I suspect this thing will need a lot of testing on unsuspecting victims... errrr, readers. *g*)

And thank you!! I hope so too, re: illness... I look forward to having it all behind me, and in the meantime I do my best to repress it. ;-)