January 14, 2010 11:15 PM 38 days to go

A visitor!

As I mentioned yesterday, my mother-in-law is visiting for the next few days. Believe it or not, it's nice to have her here. It's of mutual benefit to all of us. She needs a change of scenery and we need the break in our everyday routine.

So, today, she and my wife did what women usually do when they get together - they go shopping! As for me, I spent a good part of the day going over my speech for the 21st. There is so much to say - yet the time is limited. It really tries my editing skills to get it all in.

I know what's going to happen. At the party, I will backfill with a few more things that I think need to be said and, at that point, will hopefully have brought closure to everything up to now.

The other day I commented about getting the letter addressed to "Dear Transplant Survivor" and how it was accompanied by a brochure for a national Bone Marrow Transplant Symposium to be held in Burlington, Massachusetts on the 20th and 21st of March. It really seems very worthwhile to do this, so I have signed up myself, my wife, and one of my daughters to attend.

Their motto is "Celebrating A Second Chance At Life". How many of us do get a second chance like this? Why God has chosen me for this undeserved luxury - I don't know? But I now feel that I'm on a quest to find the answer.

Who knows? Maybe I will find the answer there...

Bob