A friend of mine came home alive. For many long weeks there was real fear he would not come home at all. A week or so prior to Thanksgiving he entered the hospital with an emergency illness. After a few days, however, it became apparent something far more serious was wrong. Doctors were baffled. More specialists were called in who eventually diagnosed his malady -- a serious one indeed. Appropriate drugs and medications were administered, but his condition worsened. New specialists were summoned, new tests were conducted, but soon another very serious problem developed. New drugs and treatments were introduced, and then a third, perhaps even more serious, problem evolved. One day his exhausted and desperate wife said to me, "What have we done wrong to deserve all this? For what sin are we …