Days 54-60: Normal

Normal
During the course of this, I have avoided using the term “new normal.” I don’t know that I will ever feel like referring to life with a child that has leukemia as normal. We continue to learn new things about leukemia and Ellie’s treatments. Each phase is a little different, and now that we are about halfway through Consolidation, we are in a groove. Today I received a gift from a group of friends who were a huge part of my life in college. It was a verse that I haven’t even thought about during this at all, but it is so applicable and was a great encouragement to me today.

For now we see through a glass darkly: but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Corinthians 13:12

Leukemia is something we have been…