You
never know where your angels might find you. Tonight Bob and I popped
into a little local Mexican restaurant for dinner on our way home from
my office. When we walked in, a woman who neither of us recognized
immediately began exclaiming how glad she was to see Bob and how amazing
it was to see him looking so well. Bob apologized for not recognizing
her and asked who she was. It turned out it was Jenny, who works in our
accountant’s office, and her husband Mark. Jenny told Bob how much she
and everyone in the office had been praying for him and following his
progress on the blog. After chatting for a few moments, we went on to
our table and ordered our dinners. At the end of our meal, when the
server came to our table, she flipped through her order pad, and finding
the right page she tore in out, saying “Your meal has been taken care
of, and your friends left you this note. It said “Happy Valentine’s Day
Bob and Megan! God Bless, Jenny and Mark.” Both of us dissolved in
tears at that unexpected act of kindness, and even more so at the
thought of how many people outside of our awareness have been keeping
us, and especially Bob, in their prayers.
We
are especially in need of those prayers over the next few days. Today
Bob took his last dose of the steroids he has been on to suppress his
immune system since his recent setback. One of the ongoing puzzles in
treating Bob’s illness has been to know how much immune suppression to
give him and for how long. He will now be back on just the three
anti-seizure drugs and Cellcept to suppress his immune system. We are
fervently hoping that that is enough to keep his immune system calm and
out of attack-mode, praying hard that we keep the seizures at bay.
In
the meantime, inch by inch, life is slowly taking on the shape of
normalcy. We are both learning a new, deeper variety of patience than
we’ve ever known before because everything seems to take so much longer
to get done. But little by little, things are getting done and checked
off the to-do lists. Bob figured out how to fix the toilets, and we
hired someone to come sort out the most pressing of the technology
problems. Bob is back into problem-solving mode, using the Internet to
help his figure out how to do things when he forgets how. He is also
faithfully documenting his days in his journal so that at the end of the
day he can review what has happened and try to conjure up memories of
those people and events. With the Dean Search over, I am trying to catch
up on all of the other important things that got set aside in my work
and also finding more time to meet with my students, which I enjoy.
-Megan
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