Rolling on the Liver.: Just Another Soothing Evening

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Just Another Soothing Evening

This is what bedtime around here is like these days.

Darth Maul from Star Wars.
Sandy and Danny from Grease.
Darth Maul is training to rule the universe.
Summer lovin' happened so fast.

Reading the book in the little boy's room.
Singing the song in the little girl's room.
Should I worry about Darth Maul's looks and motives?
Trying to explain how Sandy and Danny actually have conflicting values.

Another back and forth. A chapter. A verse.
Good thing our apartment is small and I have my sneakers on.
Prayers.
Goodnight.

Time for the papa panda and me to settle in with the JAZZ series by Ken Burns we just checked out from the library. What the hey, with a glass of wine. For me, not the diva liver guy.

With love, T

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WELCOME.

This e-community decided to start when Bob's liver decided to stop, in the fall of 2006. Instead of moving out of seminary housing and on to a call to parish ministry, our lives quit as the wild bile poisoned Bob from head to toe. All we could do is watch and wait to see if he would need a liver transplant or if his own would regenerate itself; praying that he wouldn't die in the meantime as he shut down to a virtual comotose state.

In the end, there was no transplant but a lot of transformation. Old liver, new lives. Our whole family made it through a dark time thanks to the community that provided us a lifeline of love. Literally at Luther Seminary, from where Bob had just graduated; from my colleagues at Lutheran World Relief; from family, friends and strangers; and electronically via the care pages we started when Bob was at the transplant unit in the Mayo Clinic.

Anyway, this is like after the liver heals, days of our livers, the liver runs through us, the liver of life, or something about going on newly aware of how Bob's liver lives among us. He says definitely not old man liver, but maybe Liverace. So, from the bottom of Bob's organic bile binder, I thank you for coming to this site.