Happy Blogiversary to me! This was the day I was planning on celebrating 15 years of this blog. It was back in March 2011 when my first post began:
So the last 18 months have been rough.
So I was excited to make today's anniversary post all about how much more amazing these last 18 months have been. About the many solo adventures I've been on. About how hubby and I just got back from our third consecutive winter at sea and it was the best one yet. About how life has changed for the better over the course of all these years. And about how I was getting on another cruise ship tomorrow and heading to Hawaii.
But life has a way of getting in the way of plans.
While we made it through three months on a cruise ship sailing back and forth to Mexico without getting sick (now that's a feat!) hubby wasn't so lucky when we got back home. He had two random falls on the same day necessitating 911 calls, with the second fall requiring an ambulance ride and emergency room visit. No bones were broken but the X-rays did show something else. And did those additional abnormal tests, unstable vital signs, mental confusion, inability to walk, and 103 degree fevers show something too?
Pneumonia. And sepsis.
The boy was sick and has gone nowhere but isolation for the last couple weeks. Thankfully I was allowed to hang out with him and be the go between as he's been unable to process what the medical team tells him or asks him. While his mental clarity improved during week two, his legs did not. With some pneumonia still in his lungs, today he was transferred to a rehab facility. Just like when his kidneys shut down so many years ago, starting today he'll be learning how to walk again.
So instead of a quiet hotel room in San Francisco tonight I'm in the quiet house. Instead of heading to Hawaii tomorrow I'll be heading back to the rehab center. Instead of celebrating 15 years of the blog I am contemplating. Contemplating life, home, work, and even the blog. I thought I had a new direction for it all but it appears it was just a detour. A very long and winding detour and one that may just drain the gas tank.
Thanks for listening. And thanks for 15 years and almost 4 million views - now that's something to celebrate!
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| A spectacular winter sunset in Cabo |
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