Unconditional Love

This Journey started FOUR YEARS ago, it’s a path no one should ever have to travel. We don’t want to be on it, we didn’t ask for this, but here we are traveling this path not knowing where it’s going to go each day.

The twists and turns of this path makes life difficult sometimes. The forks in the road challenge me everyday. I never know what I will have to face each day. After four years one would think I would be used to the not knowing. Well, the truth is each year brings more sadness because the outcome of this whole journey comes closer to reality.

When he first got the LVAD we were told the lifespan wasn’t that long, maybe five years. Here we are FOUR YEARS in and the fifth year around the corner. It has a lot of things running through my mind. I’m not worried or scared about it, just sad. Sad that everyday brings us closer to a reality that we shouldn’t even be thinking about.

FOUR YEARS seems small but it’s a lifetime for us. Beating the odds is now the main goal. Making it every year from here on out will be a blessing and we know that. But FOUR YEARS has taken so much from us and it’s made us different. We can’t get back those FOUR YEARS or the years we hope to get. We are trying our best to live and life to the fullest. Our bills are paid, but there just isn’t enough left to do most things we would like too. It’s a struggle but we made it work. Maybe one day. For now, we will take the FOUR YEARS and hope for another year.