An adoring smile rises from two faces, four little eyes
light up, two hands tenderly touch and bodies come together in a warm
embrace. Who, what and where? They were the smiles and hands of my children coming
together after NOT seeing each other for days.
A laugh, a giggle, a joke, a poke, a bottom in the air and a
wiggle. Who, where and what? My daughter
stuck in a hospital room for yet another night watching and talking to her
grandparents using Skype.
A jump, a bump, a run, a smile and a laugh. Who, what and where?
A colleague of mine who has never met my daughter gave me the gift of balloons,
she (my daughter) played with them for hours.
No doctor could have written out a prescription for a hug, a
chat on Skype or balloons. Yet these three things gave my daughter (who had
been through surgery only a few days before) so much happiness, so much joy. These
three things gave me her father so much pleasure, her grandparents and brother
and mother such an overwhelming sense of relief and moment away from our grief that
they were ......priceless.
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