Eye Yi-Yi-Yi

Things are LOOKING good!

    Yeah, it was an intended pun...Anyway DH's eyes are LOOKING good. The exam results
were SPECtacular! Okay, enough of the eye puns.
   We were surprised to discover that there has been even more improvement in his vision. The appointments for eye rehab will be only once a month now as we hopefully continue to SEE progress. (I guess the puns keep rolling, as do your eyeballs as you read these puns).
   The biggest drawback is he needs a new prescription for glasses. We got an estimate for the cost and it took our breath away by how much they would cost as they are special digitized lenses. Not having eye insurance has been sobering.
   However, when we were discussing the pros and cons of the (very expensive) top-of-the-line fou-fou-it's-making-someone-some-serious-bucks-lenses, DH pointed out that he is still here and that the stroke could have robbed him of so much more than his vision. A friend told me about a family she knows where the husband, in his 40's, father of a mostly young family, was on spring vacation with his family about a week before DH's stroke. The family was staying in a hotel in a neighboring state. His wife found him on the floor unconscious, a victim of a massive stroke. It has changed their lives forever. Everything was affected. Motor skills/speech etc. So, why him? Why was DH so "lucky" to "only" have his vision affected?
    I do not have any answers to these existential questions. I don't believe in karma, but I don't believe in coincidences either.  Luck of  the draw? Happenstance? It boggles the mind. All I know is that we have been blessed. In this country we are blessed with medical knowledge and facilities that can diagnose and heal disease that formerly would have killed you instantly. But it is still a crap shoot. Why does a lightning bolt hit that one guy standing in a group of people who are left untouched? They talk about survivor's guilt when some survive and others die in the same situation. Books and movies have addressed this phenomenon and haven't come up with a good answer, so I can't possibly figure it out and come up any answers in this short blog. Sooooo what I will say is we are grateful for what we have and what we have been given...another chance at a wonderful life.
    Friends, family, loved ones (and you are ALL loved ones): We don't know why we were blessed, but we don't take that for granted and we don't take YOU for granted. Thank you for being in our lives.