It's true! Today marks the fifth year since Lee received his lung! Many times since January 2015, we have made tentative plans for a special celebration when he reached this important landmark. Should we go to the beach? Maybe we should invite all our family and celebrate at home! Perhaps getting together with friends would be a good thing. Wouldn't it be great if we could get together with those we left behind in Durham, who are also celebrating their five-year anniversary. At any rate, we really should do something unusual, don't you think?
Today was one of those normal summer mornings. I awoke at my usual hour of 6:00 a.m., started the coffee and proceeded to the sun room for my morning ritual of reading and enjoying the awakening of the good earth. Lee joined me around 7:00 a.m. with coffee in hand and we had a leisure hour or so of just doing what retirees do at our age........nothing! Around 8:00, I busied myself with breakfast preparation while Lee made his routine inspection of the garden, fed all the neighborhood dogs, and retrieved the papers. We read the papers while having a breakfast of French Toast and fresh fruit.
By 9:00, Lee left with grandsons in tow to daughter Julia's house in Morganton to begin the installation of a hand rail beside steps leading up to her house. (This being done for our benefit when we visit.) He had John and Will as his able assistants and was ready to hopefully have this job completed by lunch in spite of the 90 + degree heat!
After they departed, I realized the bushel of tomatoes Lee purchased yesterday had to be canned and could not wait another day. I used the rest of the morning keeping busy as I washed, peeled, cored, cooked and finally canned 11 quarts of tomatoes.
So far, on this day, June 23, 2015, neither of us has realized that it is the five-year anniversary of his new lung and his renewal of life! This epiphany did not hit us until we sat down to supper and when Lee finished the blessing that not only was thankfulness for our bounty, but also for life, that we both looked at each other and with surprise, gave congratulations for all the accomplishments that have brought us back to this day.....................a perfectly normal day........................a day like those days before Lee's catastrophic illness! Praise be to God!
It was also on this day that we received an e-mail from Duke stating that his bronchoscopy with biopsy was negative for rejection! All cultures and tests were normal! He does not need to come back for an entire year unless he has a problem. See you in a year! He has arrived! He beat all the odds! He is our Miracle Man!
This is the best blog I have had the privilege to write! A normal day with my wonderful husband. A day that I never thought would be given back to us. Prayers are answered and dreams really do come true!
More Later.........................................Brenda
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