@nitsua60 Thank you. I can't read it right now because I'm on break during a class and I expect to have Emotions when I read it, but thanks in advance.
@BESW No worries. The thought--prompted by learning one more datum about your situation--that I might not be able to say this to my son gave me Emotions. So I jotted it down and slipped it in a file my wife knows about. And I ventured out on a limb to share it... perhaps it's some small part of the words your dad would be using if he could.