Do you ever have a sense that time stands still while simultaneously moving full speed ahead? It's a weird sensation I feel often.
I can't believe it has been almost a month since we were at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hospital time is strange - for anyone who has spent time in a hospital for any reason, you probably get what I mean. Time stands still , yet it dissipates before your eyes. Our big highlight each day at the hospital was Rounds, when the Drs would come in for 10 minutes around 11 am and tell me of the findings over the past 24 hours. Then we waited until the next day for the same Drs making the same rounds at the same time. KA did GREAT at the hospital. We spent lots of time reading, painting, playing, watching movies and visiting with big brother Michael (who was home on Spring Break) and others.
Per my usual MO I needed time to process what we got from that stay. Kellyanne continues to be a medical mystery. Let's just say that her meds are working. She has an incredibly abnormal eeg, but doesn't present as such, much like her mri.....for both of these things we are extremely grateful! We'd rather her present atypically in both of these cases.
Our house has been a strange mix of dynamics over the past couple of weeks. Erin was away for 3 days at a Student Government Convention so it was just Eilis and Kellyanne. Eilis went to Mexico for a Mission Trip so for a couple of days it was just Erin and Kellyanne. Michael came home for 5 days over Easter, for 3 of those days it was Michael, Erin and Kellyanne. And then FINALLY on Sunday and Monday we had all 4 kids at the same time under one roof. It was great! Time was moving forward, but I was stuck in this strange place of asking myself, who is where and when do they leave and/or return?
Kellyanne has very little sense of time. She's getting better at understanding it but she literally goes moment to moment. There is such freedom in that, I think. No sense of urgency or needing to be somewhere or do something at any particular time. Yes, not an ideal way to live as an adult, but it sure seems enticing. Kind of like vacation time....
So, as I look at the clock and realize one needs to go to practice and one needs to be picked up from practice, I must succumb to time and quit my rambling, find my keys and put Kellyanne in the car to do the necessary tasks at hand : )
