excels at mediocrity

My little girl of 7 years hasn’t slept in her own bed for over 4 months. Over the past 8 months she has probably only been home for a few weeks. On 9/11 – ironic I know – her cancer came back. She has spent a lot of sleepless nights at the hospital in pain, discomfort, or just nausia.  As a result, my wife and I have spent a lot of sleepless nights as well. After a clinic visit today she was finally given the go ahead to come home next week. My wife cried. Chloe was estatic.

We’ve been lucky to have gotten her good treatment for her leukemia and a bone marrow transplant that we pray will eliminate the cancer once and for all. She has had great nurses and doctors. For months now we have been living apart so our other two girls can keep going to school, so we trade off living with Chloe at the hospital or apartment. We are looking forward to not having to pay for an apartment as well as our home, having to catch up with each other by phone, eating on the road all the time, spending a fortune on gas; but mostly just being able to be together. Every day.

You tend to take things for granted, until you don’t have them anymore.