- Your last short term disability check comes in the mail
- You only have to see the doctor every couple months, instead of every day
- The wheelchair has been returned to the spare room
- The apartment maintenance staff has removed the wheelchair ramp from your front step
- You're able to run on a treadmill
- Your are able to go back to your routine of staying up way later than your wife
- Your wife's booklet of hospital parking passes is starting to collect dust in her car
- You are able to take long walks (and even hikes) that you weren't able to do before
- You can climb the steps to get to your friends second story apartment in under 10 minutes
These are a few exciting things that we've been up to lately. Jon is basically recovered and back in the swing of things. He has an appointment with his doctor in the next few weeks, but it's just to check in. We are so, so thankful that he is better!
This has been one of the most difficult things we have dealt with in our marriage (WAY harder than the 2007 cancer scare, and even harder than the miscarriages) but we have come out so much stronger. We work better as a team. I've learned to appreciate him more and snap at him less. (I'm still not perfect... it's a work in progress.) BUT we've been able to cook dinner together dozens of times, which we had NEVER been able to do before. I would get annoyed with him and kick him out of the kitchen after 5 minutes, but we've been able to work as a team recently. We've fought less. Smiled more. All in all, while this has been a huge trial, it's been a huge blessing because we are closer than ever.
So, what should I do with this blog now that he's better? Blogs usually get me in trouble. So I don't know if I will update this regularly. We will see.
