Thunderbirds are Go
Today has been a good day. A long day, a tiring day, a draining day, but also a good day.
After the alarm clock went off at 6am this morning I scraped myself out of bed, jumped in the shower, brushed my teeth, pulled yesterday's clothes on, and wandered downstairs to make a coffee.
Six months after breaking her leg in a freak accident at rugby, this morning I took my youngest daughter across the county for a consultant to look at x-rays and decide if she can start her path towards recovery in earnest. After walking this way and that through a huge hospital in search of the correct department, and after more walking this way and that in search of the x-ray department, we eventually found ourselves sitting in front of the consultant we have been waiting months to see.
My daughter's leg is “good to go”. It's healed perfectly. She can now set about building back the muscle she has lost, start running regularly, and throw herself into rugby tackles once more.
I wrote a short note on Facebook – “Thunderbirds are go!”
Guess who will obviously be charged with accompanying her on said running escapades? I don't actually mind, because I need a good reason to go running anyway.
We arrived home from the hospital early in the afternoon, and I walked straight into a wall of meetings, development work, and more meetings. Not fun.
Something else happened today though. Something that turned a stressful, tiring day into a quite wonderful day. I received word from an old friend – a friend I have not spoken to for some time, but who has never been far from my thoughts. I found myself sitting on the bus early this morning grinning like an idiot – shaking my head at the tricks the universe plays as soon as you take your eyes off it.