The ordeal

I took this picture of Mary walking the labyrinth just outside the hospital on Saturday, October 10th.  We'd just found out that her numbers had dropped again and were a bit discouraged.  Because of her low numbers, she had to wear this duck mask outside her room - I wore one as well.  We were in between antibiotic IVs, so were able to take a walk without having to take anything hooked up to her.

I am a big fan of labyrinths (especially after reading Daniel Pink's discussion about them in his chapter on Meaning).  Here we are at the Grace Cathedral Labyrinth last year:



These distraction-less healing walks are wonderful in getting grounded.  We had a lot of fun doing them together - on one of them I remember us plotting how we were going to bust out of the hospital and go find a cabin in Western Montana to live out our existence.  I think the labyrinth helped Mary build her energy and focus for when she finally told them, "I am leaving the hospital and I'm going to go heal."  Which she did - thankfully.