I have been hibernating in the a/c in the hot afternoons,
for the past week watching episodes of the TV series Touch. The premise of this show is “we are all interconnected. Our lives are invisibly tied to those whose
destinies touch ours.”
A young boy, who does
not speak, sees the past, present, future and how it is all connected. He communicates with his dad through numbers
and manipulates the connections to fix problems in people’s lives.
Today, I left home
even earlier than usual to go to my second to last radiation treatment. I was walking down the stairs to the
treatment area when a woman coming up the stairs hesitated then turned and
asked me “Do you have breast cancer?” At
this moment, our lives connected, me as I come to the end of my intense
treatment journey (remember my resistance to this term when I was first
diagnosed-I think I get it now) and hers as she is just beginning. She meets with her oncologist today to get a
treatment plan and asked me a million questions. I felt as if I was looking at myself, less
than six months ago and I saw how far I have come. She was reassured that I looked
so good and was smiling. I hugged her
and told her she would be ok, that she would get through it all as I have. We exchanged contact info and will keep in
touch.
I can’t help but
think that this could be an episode of Touch.
Sounds like it could be an episode...that is such a good show. As I follow your journey, you constantly amaze me. You came into each other's lives at such a moment as to bring meaning to one another in such different ways. I don't believe in "coincidence" anymore...it does seem everything happens for a reason, whether we see it or not.
ReplyDeleteI miss you and am so happy to hear that you are doing so well as to be counseling others already. It is so like you and makes me smile. xoxo