Summer is home! She made a lot of new friends (nurses) and it was a little hard to leave them but she did. She got in the car and put on her sunglasses, hair sticking up, and looked like a movie star clutching a pillow over hospital gowns and fluffy blue socks. After her last pain medication she couldn't stop laughing over the stupidest little shit like:
(in the hospital room)
Summer: Is the air conditioner on medium?
Fatma: Yes, it is on medium.
Summer: Put it on large.
(2 second delay)
Summer: (uncontrolled laughter for 10.5 pregnant pauses)
LARGE!
(more laughter until the addominal staples loosened up ;-))
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Once she got home she realized what an amazing week it has been.
Summer requests that nobody come by the house without calling her first. She doesn't want the door bell going off at all. She will be able to take over the blog real soon.
Thanks again for the support!
Love,
Jim
(in the hospital room)
Summer: Is the air conditioner on medium?
Fatma: Yes, it is on medium.
Summer: Put it on large.
(2 second delay)
Summer: (uncontrolled laughter for 10.5 pregnant pauses)
LARGE!
(more laughter until the addominal staples loosened up ;-))
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Once she got home she realized what an amazing week it has been.
Summer requests that nobody come by the house without calling her first. She doesn't want the door bell going off at all. She will be able to take over the blog real soon.
Thanks again for the support!
Love,
Jim
posted by Summer @ 4:25 PM
12 Comments:
At 7:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
WONDERFUL news that you are home, Summer! If we can't be together at class right now (7:05 Tuesday night), then knowing you are there is the next best thing ;-)
Will call and hope to visit soon,
love,
Robin K.
At 7:44 PM,
Anonymous said…
JIM,
Thanks for taking such great care of Summer this last week. I thank you, and so do many of those that care and wish her well.
Sylvania
At 7:55 PM,
Anonymous said…
So Awesome you two! I am glad you are home. Welcome back to your nest.
At 9:16 PM,
Anonymous said…
Summer,
Welcome home. Find peace, comfort, hopefully some good food soon, and enjoy reflecting on this part of your journey on this most thoughtful blog site you and Jim setup for us. Take care of yourself...somehow I envision you hugging your bike.
Love to you and Jim,
Amy J
At 9:23 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hi Friends of Jim and Summer,
Now that Summer is home, I would like to organize a rotation for providing very simple nourishing meals that will help her get stronger to face the next phase of her healing (including chemotherapy in the next few weeks).
For all interested please send me an e-mail with your info :e-mail address, phone number.
Please write Summer in the header so that I can retrieve the messages as they will go to spam.
I will then put together a schedule and give you details off the blog.
I am looking forward to hearing from you:)
Fatma H.
Sufimom@aol.com
At 9:04 AM,
Anonymous said…
Great to hear she has kept her sense of humor and even better that she is back home. I ran the nike marathon this weekend in SF to raise money for LLS in honor of people fighting cancer in general but two people in particular. One is Summer and the other another friend in her twenties (Michele). I wrote their names along with a warm message on the board that they had set up at Union Square. I was thinking of you the whole way.
Here is hoping for your speedy recovery. Jim, thanks for the updates and for taking such good, loving care of Summer.
Homa
At 9:09 AM,
Anonymous said…
YEA!!! Summer is home...I will give you time to get settled, back in your own home and in your own bed...I will call you next week to come by for a visit : )
I LOVE YOU!!!!
Carmon
At 4:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
Summer;
Think of something I can do to help.
Do you need books, magazines, fruit, soup? Let me know and I'll be there.
Cheryl
At 1:11 PM,
Anonymous said…
Thanks Jim, for all the words about your darling! We claim her too...I miss her terribly. Her spirit is incredible and sustains so many. We have to now step up to the plate, to use baseball vernacular, and lift her for a change! Summer, you must feel everyone doing this. I have only been home two days and have spoken and heard your name so many times. It really is amazing and heartwarming how much you are loved and by so many.
Don't let your head get too big, as we all know you are human even though you fool us most of the time!
As soon as you like, you will be bombarded with people, but I want to be included for a visit when it is appropriate. To be serious, very serious for a moment, you have been through a horrendous ordeal and still face more. We cannot discount the gravity of your surgery and the challenge your body is going through. The wondrous fact is that your spirit and health will take you through this. However I know it isn't as easy as you will make it seem and look to us.
As for me, I am doing okay and really giving your health my energy and love. Tora
At 6:34 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hugs to you Summer!! I missed seeing you this morning as I stood all alone in line at Zinc waiting to order one of those dry hunks of oatmeal with powdered suger on top!! I'm glad to hear you're home and I send you a million hugs and wishes for a speedy return to robust health, and for lots and lots of laughter!! Let me know when you're up to letting me bring you a bar and coffee!!
Debbie B.
At 8:57 PM,
Anonymous said…
Summer!
I can't wait to come over and read magazines ;)
Love ya!
Leslie
At 9:35 PM,
Anonymous said…
Summer,
I thought this was about the sweetest thing I ever heard.
Today is Ally's 8th birthday. She said, " I wish for Summer, who is the one who dances and is really really nice, to get better and to keep dancing alot"... So you are her birthday wish..
Love
Amy and Ally J.
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