Today I’m hanging out over at Jerusha Agen’s blog talking about fear and tough times. Here’s a bit of it. To finish click the link and head on over to The Fear Warrior Blog.
Anyone who knows me knows I love taking pictures, putting them in albums and displaying them on my walls. Photography helps me freeze the world and make sense of it one frame at a time. But it’s been a long while since I’ve had a moment to sort through my photographs. Two years to be semi-precise. And there’s good reason—in addition to some significant health issues for my mom and I, my daughter was hospitalized six times in two different hospitals as she fought for her life. That’ll do a number on you for sure.
It’s a strange feeling to flip through the photos, and watch the weeks leading up to my girl’s collapse and first hospitalization roll past, blissful in their unknowing of the impending disasters. Four weeks before I was at the Michigan State capital with my son’s class. Three weeks before—the State swimming championship meet with my daughter. Only a week before shows sweeping panoramas of mountains and smiling faces on Spring Break in at the St. Louis zoo, then Branson, Missouri.
I see occasional dark circles under my daughter’s eyes, remember that my girl wasn’t feeling well, and yet we had no idea that her body was filling with infection, and her body trying to ward off disaster by bandaging her organs with scar tissue.
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