Thinking of Alberto this Rainy Night
November 28th, 2005It’s rainy tonight. The first time we have heard the rain since moving to our new place. Shows how late the rains have come this year. We sit, me at the kitchen table and Juanjo at his desk, listening to the slap-slap of the drops agains our floor-to-cieling windowpanes. Hearing the wet sound of car tires kicking up the puddles in the street below. We are thinking urgently of our friend Alberto tonight. One of Juanjo’s dearest friends. He’s in the hospital, getting steroid treatments to help regain his normal functions after losing some of his balance and speech abilities, and getting double vision.
We are all so worried about you, Alberto, hoping that you will have full recovery, that you will improve quickly, that this is just a short term illness and not the long term ailment that it could be. Not wanting to overwhelm you with our calls, but wanting to pick up the phone every half an hour to check in and see how you are doing. We all understand that this is going to be slow. But we hope that it goes as quickly as possible, we hope you see progress, that you don’t have to suffer, that you don’t get frustrated, that this is not the beginning of something that will impact your life even more. We’re thinking of you tonight, hoping for your quick recovery, esperando que estes tranquilo, y que sepas que te queremos!