I will post about my visit with Dr. Chia and I will write about successful travel with this illness, but first let me tell you about the trip to California.
On the way to the airport. This was the furthest south I’d been in two years.
On the train in SeaTac airport, feeling like a normal person going on a trip (besides the wheelchair and mask).
You can’t get much better than this. Flying over Mount Rainier, leaving Seattle.
And an unexpected side effect of my illness: my fear of flying is gone. I’m living on borrowed time, what do I have to fear? 🙂
Driving to our rental: 2 military helicopters flew right over the bridge.
Our beautiful garden away from home.
How do you explain what it feels like to spend time somewhere other than your house for the first time in years? To see the ocean when you never that you would again? To feel alive when you once thought you might not live? There are no words.
Our first night.
Creating new memories.
Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart 