kapper48 spouse-want to say thanks

Hi, my name is Carrie and my husband is Pat (kapper48). I just "joined" myself to this board last week. I know none of you know me but I feel like I know all of you as I have read story upon story with Pat since he joined this board in 2008. When he first started doing this, I have to say it bothered me alot because in my mind I thought it would make him feel worse or more scared to read stories that may offer him no hope. But as time went on and he began reading me things that people wrote to other people and to him, I found out that I could not have been more wrong. I watched him get on this website every single night before he went to bed - he still does that - and I began to notice that more often than not, he always felt a little better. Sometimes he doesn't post anything about himself or even to anyone else, he just reads. I came to realize that all of you have become his friends and his support and one of his biggest coping mechanisms.
We have a HUGE support system through our family and friends, they have been more than wonderful. I know that neither one of us could have dealt with everything that has happened over the past two years without them. But none of them know exactly what he is going through since they are not here on a daily basis. Sure they offer him words of encouragement and are there to listen to him when he needs them to but noone knows what it feels like to be in his situation. Even I don't. As the "caregiver", all I can do is be there for him and help him get through all of this no matter what that entails the best way I know how. But at the same time it is a very helpless feeling knowing you can't do anything to help the person you love feel better and to watch them go through something as horrible as this disease. I know that myself and everyone else in his life do help him in many ways, but I don't think that anything has helped him get through this any more than being able to talk to all of you. You understand because you are or have experienced what he is going through first hand.
I guess I just wanted to tell each and everyone of you thank you for being there for him. Thank you for talking to him and offering your opinion or advice. Thank you for all your words of encouragement during the times when he feels like giving up. Thank you just for the simple thing of being there for him in the very special way that you are. Thanks a million times.
Carrie