The Return Home

Our last Sunday in Salt Lake City! My brother Mark will accompany us on the drive back to Gunnison this Thursday March 19th. After all this time, it's hard to believe we're coming home! I will miss Salt Lake City, and the people and places that have become part of our lives.....but it's time and we're ready. When we flew in here on an Air-Med flight on January 12th, if someone had told me we'd be here until March 19th, I'd probably have had a nervous breakdown, or simply not believed them. There's no way to comprehend all that's happened to us, and we've lived it!

The road back has been a journey of personal growth for both of us. We're still processing what it all means, but we know Jay has been gifted with a second chance at life. There's been a silver lining as well as lots of challenges. He's coming home with a buzz cut and a cane (both temporary), and is still accessing higher level abilities and skills. His personality and his confidence are re-emerging, as a stroke and brain injury is a humbling experience. Jay will continue to recover, but returning home to our lives is the next phase.

The silver lining lies in the growing, learning, changing, accepting, and pondering we've both had to do, and in the strength, gratitude, and openess we've been blessed with. We left in the dead of winter and we come home in the spring. It feels like a rebirth full of new opportunites and possibilities.