Seeing is Believing

The in-laws on the Halvorson side are known as the Outlaws. The wisdom of my fellow sister-in-laws belies their youth. Carol’s no-nonsense approach defies children and adults alike to ever deceive her. Suzanne combines heart, talent and creativity in all of her accomplishments. Thea is our Mother Superior and ever-constant model for dealing with life with grace, perspective and right amount of a gentle yet firm hand.

Carol and Thea have both remarked that it was a little surprising to hear that months removed from surgery I was still on the mend. They haven’t seen me in a year and know me as being healthy and in shape so assumed that I would bounce back to normal quickly.

That’s the long and short of it. Long in the sense that recovery goes at its own pace, but short in terms of what could have been.

A few months ago, the goals were a little simpler, like being able to bend down to pick things up. Now I can put them away too. Or ignore them. This week I burned a batch of popcorn in the microwave. Life is returning to normal.