Spring

Well, Lent this year was all about our daughter. It seemed like a personal season of sacrifice and pain, starting with surgery on Ash Wednesday. But now that Easter has passed, as well as the official recuperation period, we feel we can breathe a sigh of relief. Surgery went well with no complications, and DD17 seems mostly back to normal. Recuperation involved much rest and no heavy lifting. The area of hair the surgeon shaved was on the hairline and easily covered up. She missed three weeks of school and is still catching up. The high school has provided tutors, but school issues seem secondary after what she went through, again. I try not to dwell on it, nor the future. One thing is certain, though. Going through an event like this (again) puts everything else into perspective, rapidly. And it encapsulates all that is bad and good in the world. Bad: major illness, especially of a child. Good: the people who dedicate their lives to caring for the sick and injured.