Anybody Home?

Well, it would appear that my recent ramblings have brought the light-hearted banter on my blog to a screeching halt. I seem to be really good at dropping conversation stoppers lately.

We were at a Super Bowl party a while back, and someone came up and asked how our son was doing. I answered honestly by saying he was doing well, but that we really had to watch his blood counts and there is about a week or two through the month that we really can't go out and do much. I mentioned that he'd finished his 28 radiation treatments, and our daily 2-hour round trips were over. He fared well, and we really enjoyed getting to know the other patients in the radiation oncology clinic.

I talked about our friends at the hospital, and how they have become our second family.

And then I realized that, really, no one else has any way of relating to what I was talking about. So, I made a joke about how I was really good at bringing conversations to a halt, and what was everyone doing for Valentine's Day?

{insert nervous laughter}

People just don't know what to say, and that's OK. Before I went through all of this, I always wanted to have the perfect words to offer someone in this type of a situation. I never did, and that's OK, too. Just listen, hug, love, and be a friend.