I went to our MM support group meeting today. Afterward, I spent an hour talking to a man that I met
some months ago not long after his diagnosis. I have not seen him since then. He had an auto
transplant in the interim. Our lives are on very similar paths. Our daughters are the same age.
Both his wife and myself bought a real estate investment right before our husbands were diagnosed. He was diagnosed during a bout with sepsis, I think, as was Tim though this man's was a much more frightening experience. But what made me smile was that after telling him
about my X-mas surprise for my husband and talking about living for today, he held up
his car keys which were on a fob and though my eyesight is going, I recognized the Porsche
emblem on the fob. He went out and bought a gorgeous yellow Carrera a few months ago.
A convertable no less.
He bought it used from someone in Seattle I think and did a cross country trek to get it
home with some friends bopping in here and there to do legs of the trip with him.
HOW COOL IS THAT??!!! As we left and I heard that thing purr in the underground garage
of the building, I could not stop thinking about the whole Carpe Diem deal(and missing my old turbo Mustang with the "4 on the floor") It made me sure that
I did the right thing for Tim this Christmas. (If you don't hear from me on this blog again, it means he killed me) Don't worry, I have lined up a lot of witnesses. Not sure that would worry
him at all though. So I'm gonna keep trying to live for today. I worry too much about the future.
Normal I guess and necessary sometimes but ya can't get lost in it. I'm much better at it now than I was 2 years ago. A work in progress. Note to self: buy the sports car.
"I just wanna live while I'm alive" Jon Bon Jovi
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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