"Prognosis...." April 6, 2000

"Prognosis...." April 6, 2000

Predominant Darkness...

...Alyx and his wife, Karyn, reconciled two weeks before his illness was discovered. Just days before his admittance to the hospital, he moved back home to be with Karyn, wee ones Lisa and Cool, and pup Sheba. I know both Alyx and Karyn were not kidding themselves that the road to healing that lay in front of them was a long one.

And then Alyx became ill.

And now that road to healing is a totally different one.

Funny how some things just become so insignificant in light of others.

I have never seen two people so close as those two these last few days, even though I doubt this is the fresh start that either of them had planned. Through sharing gourmet popcorn while snuggled tightly on a hospital bed while watching Regis, to Karyn's overnight vigils, sleepless on a hospital cot, I am sure that all the discord that once was the only thing they had in common is now seemingly a nightmare from which they awoke with a start.

And despite the reasons for which Alyx is in the hospital, the scary dreams may be receeding.

The prognosis is good for friend, Alyx. Despite the ineptness of our healthcare system, regardless of the fact that he has been in for a week and a half and still does not know if it is even Hodgkins or Non-Hodgkins, there is resounding optimism that he will be cured.

Blessed Be.

It will be a long road ahead, nevertheless. At least six months of intensive chemotherapy, followed by at least that much time to recover fully. Thank the spirits that he will be able to receive the treatments as an outpatient, for the most part.

And he will not have to walk that dark, unpaved, twisting, looming path alone. He'll be carried if necessary.....

....Blessed Be...