Double exclamation point news!!

A little over a month ago, I wrote here about her boyfriend and the hit and run accident that left him in the hospital with breathing tubes and feeding tubes and casts and no consciousness. His progress has been excruciatingly slow, and for a bit of time there, touch and go. His mother had stopped calling or answering her phone unless there was some change or progress to report, and that wasn't very often.

On Saturday afternoon we sat on the grass in a ray of sunshine and I looked over at her to see tears in her eyes. I put my arms around her and we talked about him, about her sadness and how challenging this time has been for her. She's had to focus on the demands of school, and of adjusting to being away from home for the first time, while her boyfriend was miles away struggling for his life. She's been brave and amazingly strong during this time, but on Saturday she was afraid, unsure and unsteady. I could give her no answers, promise no magic. All I could do was hold onto her and love her, tell her how important it was that she keep her heart open to the positive and not focus on her fears. That's the only thing I could come up with that was honest and applicable because Everything will be okay, was not in my power to say.

This afternoon, I received an email from her. Today he started talking. His mother called her, and she spoke with him on the phone. She called the conversation normal, which speaks volumes towards his progress. He still has a long road to travel but this is a milestone step in his healing. Hope and prayers? Realized.