I’m Sitting Here Bawling

If you’ve been following along, you know that in December, I had a life-threatening illness that doctors were convinced I would not survive.  I was in a coma for 3 weeks.  Once I came out of the coma and was well enough to talk on the phone, I called my mother to say hi.  My mother was absolutely breathless.  She lives in California and I had moved out here to North Carolina only a year before.  She and my dad had flown out to see me and kiss me and basically tell me goodbye.  So when she heard my voice she was kind of overwhelmed.  After she told me how happy she was that I was talking and getting better, she said, “Jenna, your friends are so wonderful!”

That’s when I was told how via Facebook, my friends and family had come together to make sure that my parents were able to come to be with me.  It wasn’t just a matter of getting airfare.  My mother needs to be on oxygen at all times.  There was a specific kind of oxygen machine that she would need to get to be able to fly and stay with me for a few days.

I cannot put into words how incredibly grateful I am to have so many wonderful people in my life.  But, tonight, my sister gave me some new details that just took my breath away.  So I’m sitting in the middle of Hurricane Florence, crying like a baby over the last disaster we went through.  The wind is whistling through the cracks in the door almost like the soundtrack for a haunted house.  The animals are whining and restless.  And I’m just so thankful.

I feel so incredibly blessed.