I’ve been on an adventure for the past week, though not necessarily one I would have chosen. And yet, the gifts I was given I wouldn’t trade: Amazing nurses, a beautiful caregiver from Sudan, fantastic medical staff and surgeons, sweet and kind sanitation staff, friends and family from far and near who reached out, prayed and gave me their strength, and a true friend who was here immediately upon hearing what was going on, a husband whose unwavering support never left my side, and three children who set down their lives to be there for me. And my grandson who, upon seeing me on FaceTime with gauzed and makeupless face stoically proclaimed, ’I love Grandad’, as he searched for him off camera .
I’ve had double vision for a week, making everyone look like some sort of grotesque modern portrait which makes me wonder, did picasso simply have a brain tumor or was he really an artistic genius?
Nancy Wiley writes. 