Today Is Summer

Tomorrow is Aly's surgery day. We scheduled her surgery tomorrow so that she would have a few days of summer vacation before she had to take it easy and stay off her butt for a while, so today is summer. The plan is to go hang out with friends at a local park for a while and then have friends over tonight for a bonfire in our backyard.

There is urgency to all of these events. There is also the unspoken expectation that everything must be fun and fill the summer fun void so that Aly does not feel like she has missed out. To that I say "GOOD LUCK!" There is no way in one day you can make one girls summer complete. The best that we can hope for is that she is happy and glad to have had some fun.

Tomorrow, Mark and I will be sitting in the hospital waiting area once again. I am praying that this surgery will take and that Aly can heal and get on with her life.''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''[,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Please excuse this last bit of writing, my cat apparently had a few words to share. Anyway, it has been a year since this whole thing started with the Pilonidal cyst and we are all ready to move on. We just want Aly to be able to enjoy her final year of high school without having to worry about the pain and draining that has been plaguing her.

It is tough enough being a teenager without the embarrassment of some of this stuff. Fortunately, Aly has handled this whole experience with grace and confidence. She shared with me that a friend asked her last week "Hey Aly, when do you get your new butt?" She laughed about it which is good since some might have been embarrassed or even hurt by that comment. She is not afraid to discuss her butt and she is now the butt of some jokes and I truly am amazed at her ability to just keep going in spite of the pain and discomfort.

In a way, that is what life is about, making the lemonade out of lemons. Learning that nothing is easy and just getting on with it. Aly has been that person, the one that said "I don't care if I am not 100%, I am still going to give 100%. SO, today in honor of this we will have summer. Bring it on!