I wanted to take a moment to share a quick story with you. Our neighbors, I’ll call them J&B, have been great neighbors in the 4+ years that we’ve been here. They’re slightly older than us but we share so many similarities it’s scary.
Anyway, hunting season started here not long ago and we hadn’t seen J or B in a while. I thought J was most likely out hunting everyday and B has been traveling to Pitt to tend to her sister who just had surgery. Kandy had a client in at her salon a few weeks back that relayed a story about J. Turns out that the Monday before Election Day, J was in the backyard raking leaves. He had sudden chest pain and ran up to get B and dial 911. The ambulance picks him up and our hospital is [really] 2 blocks away. Turns out the ER doc had a case just like this a month earlier. What looked like a heart attack was actually a Dissecting Aorta. Very, very serious. Life threatening. J was life-flighted to a hopital 1.5 hours away. He was there for almost a month after emergency surgery saved him. No he’s on the long road to recovery.
Tonight, I found out that J was home. I went over to the house and B answered the door. J was fast asleep in his chair so I handed B the envelope that had a gift certificate inside, from us, for a portrait session and print of their choice. B broke down in tears and soon after, I followed. I’ve been on a real kick since reading Mr. Arias’ post a few months back about his stepdad. You can browse back through our posts for the past few months and you’ll see a few about “photographing those you love”.
We can’t wait till J recovers and is strong enough and we can then fulfill our promise to them. Photos will follow.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year…
