Two years ago today they took my wife into another room and cut open he skull in hopes of removing a brain tumor that would have eventually blocked of her fourth ventricle and killed. I have no doubt that without that surgery and the radiation that followed that Katrina would not still be here today.
It has been a long hard road that we have walked over the last two years and part of me hopes that this aniveresery holds some sort of significance that goes beyond the passage of time. I hope that it is the beginning of a return to normalcy. The beginning of the end of our journey.
Perhaps that has been one of the toughest parts of this journey, the not knowing. Many of us have had the pleasure at some point in our life of taking a long road trip. The journey to wherever we are going is full of excitement and wonder. The journey home, however, is more like a chore and when we finally pull into the driveway it is a relief to be home. This Journey that we have been on has been like the return leg of a long road trip, only we don't know where we are on that trip. We continually hope that we are pulling into the driveway, and yet we always fear that we have only just started the journey. It gives a whole new meaning to "enduring to the end" when you have no idea, what or when that end might be.
Here's hoping and praying for two years that are far better than the last two.
So where are we? Katrina is going to attempt to return to work in a couple of week, teaching part time. We really found ourselves between a rock and a hard place between the insurance and disability.The insurance never would okay the neuro-psych test to she how she will preform under stress so we are going into this blind. I hope and pray that she can be successful because it truly does meant so much to her. Despite everything, despite how hard it is she is passionate about teaching and devoted to a return to it. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we begin this unkknown leg of our journey.
As for my self, I don't know if I mentioned that I went back to school to finish my teaching degree. It's hard, far harder than I would have expected. To any young kids reading, don't put it off, it only gets harder as you get older. That said, I've finished my foundations of teaching courses and will be starting my field experiences here shortly. I'll do my student teaching in September of 2013, I should be done with my coursework well before that but that will be the next available co-hort.
