Okay, I will admit that I have not, as of yet, seen the Sam's 10 minutes of fame.  But I did receive a verbal recap of the exciting event:

My mom, Heath and I were on the TV twice...my dad was only on once.  My dad wailed and screamed at the injustice of this.  I just laughed in his (figurative) face. 

Heather cried like a big baby. 

I have now told the world that I sang "I Like Big Butts" to my brother and shook my booty in his face.  Nice.

My mom monopolized the entire interview while my dad was unfairly shut out of his chance at fame and fortune (this is according to my dad...not me).

Heather cried like a big baby some more.

I'm brave, cool and sing hip songs and dance in ICU.

Heather is a crybaby.

Sam is cool.  He even got subtitles, like an edgy, foreign film.

So...in closing...Sam is a superstar.  His sister, Heather, is a blubbering mess.  His other sister is a crazy, dancing idiot.  His dad is jealous and competitive.  His mom talks too much.  But, aside from all that,  we are all very glad he is still here.

Hmmm...Still here.  That reminds me of something.  This is a little off subject, but not really.  When Sam was 10 years old he and I were watching the news.  The newscaster was talking about a plane crash and interviewed a woman who missed the plane and, because of that, survived.  The story ended with a shot of the woman on a payphone while the disembodied voice of the newsman said, "And she is now calling her family to let them know she's okay."  So Sam was telling my mom about this story later.  Told the whole thing really accurately...until he reached the end.  This is what he told my mom:  "And then the girl walked up to the payphone to call her family.  And she said to her mom I'M HERE...I'M OKAY!"  I just happened to be listening to this retelling and started cracking up.  "WHAT!?" I said, "She NEVER said that!  We never heard her say anything!  You just made that up!"  And Sam smiled sheepishly, shrugged his shoulders and slinked away.  So now, whenever someone in our family has to let someone know that they've made it somewhere safely, they say (with a very dramatic tone) "I'm here, I'm okay."  And the point of this is...?  I don't know.  Just that instead of saying that he was glad he was still here, he REALLY should have looked intently into the camera, paused for about five seconds and then said (in a loud, intense voice) "I'M HERE...I'M OKAY."  Now THAT would have been perfect.  Funny and very true because, well, he is still here and, after everything that has happened, he is okay. 

And he is also a famous, car-accident-having, Pneumonia-beating, Death-outwitting, Head Injured Super Star...

and just an all around cool guy...

and my little brother...

and that, my friends, is all I have to say about that.

Bec