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Ever need a vacation to recover from the vacation?
We’ve been back a full week from the 10-day, 1600 miles in a car round-trip family vacation and it’s time for some quiet and reflection. Of course, one doesn’t need a marathon trip to discover the benefits of being alone with your own thoughts!
I bumped into someone recently whom I’d known last year. After a few moments on both our parts, we remembered why we were connected. We are both cancer survivors, having gone through our experience during the same time frame. Three of us were diagnosed in 2008, had surgeries and treatments in 2009. We two remain. Our conversation was brief, with high-fives and atta-girls. However, right then I needed that time to be with my own thoughts and reflect on what I’ve come through and remember the people who helped me in my journey. Thankfully, I went alone to Walmart, wandered the aisles and still stayed within budget! A brutal storm, more like an inland hurricane, kept me waiting inside the doors long enough to transition from deep-in-thought to “time to run through the rain and get soaked while loading the van, and I might as well put the stray carts back in the corral since I’m already wet”!
This week in July also marks the 7th anniversary since Jerome’s diagnosis. Again, time is needed for reflection and remembering and rest.
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s Return of the King, the third in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Frodo becomes incapacitated on each anniversary of the wounds suffered on Weathertop and also Shelob’s sting. Each anniversary of diagnosis also brings a need to fall back and reflect, remember the past and be thankful for the present, hopeful for the future.
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by Candace Deister, July 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM | Add a Comment |
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