Well, this one will be short and sweet. I had already written today about a deep and lovely moment this morning as the sun rose.
Then the day got busy.
And then came baseball practice for my two sons tonight.
My husband offered to help coach our boys’ baseball team with two friends of ours this fall ball season. Second practice. 10 minutes in. He’s at home plate catching balls and while focused on one, a second ball comes in from first base and as he hears his name shouted as a heads up, he turns and is immediately smacked, baseball to open eyeball. Not bone. But his eyeball.
Lots of flurry and insanity to follow but…
I am grateful for answered prayers, and per the ER CT scan, he has no orbital fracture, no corneal abrasion, the globe is still in tact and he has no vision loss.
I am grateful for friends who shuffled him to the emergency room, his car to our driveway, and my father in law who met him at the hospital.
I am so grateful for friends and familywho covered watching half my kid clan outside in their masks while I went back to the field to get the boys, others who immediately sent food treats to our doorstep and still others who have eye care products arriving tomorrow.
I am lucky to be married to someone who, while actively concerned he has ruptured his eyeball thus permanently losing his vision, upon which his entire profession is wholly dependent, he thinks… “well, my right eye still works, so at least I can still see the sun, and, you know, everything.”
Friends? Your whole entire life can change. In. A. Literal. Heartbeat. No matter what brand of crazy or awful or stressful or difficult your life is right now, breathe out some thankful. For some sort of something. It’s not going to last forever.
Come see me tomorrow, while I juggle remote learning times four children and wait on my husband, who has been charged with laying in a dark room, eye drops every two hours for the next week, with me reading his texts and responding and bringing him food and whatnot. Lordy be!
And for that? I am grateful, too.
Care to share your thoughts?