Moving tomorrow to Vallejo

I spent a good part of the day chasing people down on the phone. She was supposed to move today, but if you remember last time moving is quite the event. It doesn't help that every day you have a different group of nurses, RTs, discharge planners, doctors, etc. It seems like Sara and I are the only two players who don't change and we both get to educate people daily.

Anyway, the paperwork didn't get to Vallejo early enough today to make the move and I have assurance from the discharge planner that she will send Sara's notes over right after rounds (they have to have the daily status before making the decision - and do so early enough in the day to transport her during the day shift.)

She is in very good spirits. Getting to see Sabrina, Daniel and, of course, her Daniel gave her a real boost. She also got to see Nancy, her boyfriend's mother (whom she loves). And Dad was there, as always, on Saturday to hang out and watch movies with her.

This move to Vallejo is a real big one. It is the final leg on her long journey from the accident site back to home. You get so caught up in the day to day of going back and forth that you start to forget just how long its been since she was home, and just how important it is to her to get back there.

I can look at a calendar and know it will be 8 months by the time she gets here. That's 8 months in our time, time we can relate to "out here" where things change constantly but where a minute feels like a minute. Then there is "hospital time" where a minute is an eternity and an eternity is a minute. When she's lying there with an itch,waiting for someone to come in it can be only a minute and feel like an eternity. When she was in that first surgery to remove the clot time stood absolutely still...

The time she's spent in the hospital is the first leg on her journey. Even so, there have been some chapters along the way - milestones marked to help her see how far she's come. I look forward to showing her the pictures and the timeline I'm putting together. I want to show her how remarkable she has been and get her ready for the next phase of her journey. This one has been all about healing slowly and stability and time. The next one continues that at home, with her family and friends and animals - but it adds a focus on the fight - the fight for a little more movement, another ability, more communication, another freedom.

She has so far to go and while i've always understood that, its starting to hit me of just what that truly means...here. Still, I'd rather have her here and us working together than any place else on earth.