It has been a wild couple of weeks here. It has been a while since I have written about my daughter and my Dad journey. But here it is. I haven’t need to be the Stay at Home Dad for a while now and have been working and letting things go.
My daughter had her second transplant in 2021 and it is doing well, but she still ended up in the hospital last week. For the whole week. Without a concrete diagnosis or anything real.
So we spent a week up in the hospital, doing tests, praying, and hoping for the best. Did we find out anything? Not really. Did they rule stuff out that was not causing the pain? Yes. I have to count that as a win. But she is still in pain.
I have some PTSD from a couple of years ago when it took almost a full year to figure out that her anti-rejection medications were causing problems. A full year of my daughter being in pain wasn’t a good thing at all.
So, now my daughter and my wife are home. They are here, and I like having my family together, excepting my daughter in college and my wayward son. I really like my family, and half of them up in the hospital sucks.
So now, we wait, and hope, and pray that the pain will subside and my daughter will get back to normal and the normal things that a 17 year old should be doing. I am still the dad, and as hard as it is to wait and see, as hard as it is to not just be able to fix things like you fix a car, as hard as it is to see my daughter in pain, I still have to make the best of things and try to make her as good as possible. I have to be strong for her and the rest of the family.
I just have to be there. And go fishing at some point. Lot’s of fishing.
Until next time,
-Justin
