Homecoming

Marianna will return home today. We hope the ambulance can transport her early this afternoon. Unfortunately this homecoming is not the celebration we had hoped for.

I am sorry to say this on a blog, and I hope we have been able to speak by phone to those we could....but Marianna is coming home under Hospice care. The cancer has spread to her lungs, and the battle is over. We will make her as comfortable as possible for the time she has, which she wants to spend surrounded by you, her family, friends, and neighbors. With luck and God's grace we may have her with us for Christmas. I am sorry. Very sorry. But in the weeks she has, she wants to make every day count! She has clung to a phrase we just recently heard,

"Life is not about surviving the storm, but about learning to dance in the rain."

Marianna wants to spend these last weeks dancing, and we are going to help her do that. For today, calls and visits will be limited, she is having an exhausting adventure with an ambulance ride, and the nurse will be checking on her and prepping us. But beginning tomorrow we invite you to check in and see if she is up for a visit. Cynthia and Tommy will be at the house full time, and of course we will be there as much as possible. You can always call us for information as well.

Love to you all,
CW