I know, it's hard to believe but one year ago was "the business". If you missed "the business" and would like to read about it simply choose 'mom' from the labels and start from the bottom. This is a picture of my aunt, my mom, and I modeling the various mask options one is given at Johns Hopkins - masks were flowing and plentiful during "the business", that is for sure.I find it somewhat interesting that today's photo label was 'a photo of yourself at least one year ago'. I find myself thinking about one year ago pretty often actually. I assume it's relatively normal in the first year. I have my mom's calendar from last year in my purse and every once and a while I open it up to see what she was doing last year at this time. There is something comforting about seeing her handwriting and thinking about her doing whatever she has written in there. The past 3 weeks haven't had anything written in because it was the bone marrow transplant weeks and so she wasn't allowed to do anything. Tomorrow of last year she wrote in 'Brandy leaves'. The tenuous first three weeks after the transplant were over. I had left the week before. Brandy was headed home to go back to work. While the white blood cells hadn't totally kicked in yet, they did seem to be starting to show some life in them. For all intents and purposes, the transplant had gone well. Six months to the day later we would be stamping our parking ticket from Hopkins for the last time. Six months after that I am writing this post. In the scheme of life six months is not a lot of time. And yet, some days I look at her picture and think of how long it feels like since I've talked to her. One year ago today was a very different world in my scheme of life.
Wow. It's hard to believe that was a year ago. I am struggling to wrap my brain around that.
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