Sylvia's Journal

Today is the day I had intended, for the longest time, to go back and join my colleagues in a more regular way at work. It has been four and half months now and it is enough. My cold threatened to spoil the plans but I went to bed again at 7 PM with a cup of hot Teraflu medicine. I woke up at 4:30 AM ready to tackle the day. I used to get up at 5AM but now there is so much to do in the morning that I can use half an hour more. I feel pretty good and so this will be the day that I join the world again, this time fully.

My dreams were populated with everything and everyone I remember from the last four months. It’s a bit of a jumble and I would not know where to begin to make sense of it all. I do remember there was much activity, boat rides, bus rides, with much preparation and lugging things around. It is as if everyone came out to see me off on my new journey. This will be it then.

Yesterday was a good recovery day. We took Sita to the airport. She is off to India. After a week of work she will be staying with our friends Nathalie and Sanjay. It is as if Sita is taking up the slack in her mom’s travels. There’s more travel ahead for her. She just got an invitation to scribe at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late January. We should all be so lucky.

On our way back from the airport we stopped to see Don and Brenda, Axel’s colleagues form way back when who gave us some office furniture they no longer need. They also offered us another refrigerator, which we politely declined. We have never had so many refrigerator offers in our life.

We had a wonderful lunch in the newly opened Cheesecake Factory at the North Shore Mall to celebrate a momentous development: Axel can move his left hand up an inch or so from the wrist. We hardly dare to believe it but it appears that the nerve is indeed regenerating. In a couple of weeks he will have another EMG to determine whether there is indeed more motor activity than before. This will be the ultimate proof. If this was just a figment of our imagination and there is still nil motor activity he will have to go in for surgery.