We’ve had lots of help from family these past twelve days, which has been nice. My parents came in town for the first six days, and then M’s mom came in Friday afternoon in time to do the pickup rounds and is leaving tomorrow morning after a round of drop offs. I’m feeling better each…
Category: general
the flip side: the unseen, the assumed, the remembering
It’s been seven days since I’ve seen my feet. In the absence of anything visual, there is only sensory. For the first couple of days, the feeling was that of a butcher knife sliding through the joint between my big toes and the second ones, all the way down to the center of both feet….
under construction: see you on the flip side
My sweet friend Becky just wrote a few days ago about being six months out from her back surgery. And while feet are nothing compared to the spine, I’ve found her words on being patient and taking time to heal very encouraging. Like me, she’s not much of a sitter / rest-er / wait-er. I told…