A history of God and me part 25 aka 2022

 2022 was a dark year, nevertheless God was Light. I may have not realized it most of the time, but His providence was there.

January, I decided to take a planned unplanned road trip in which some much needed get away was to be gotten. I also envisioned a time of working on writing a short novel regarding the formative years of my daughter's life.  Towards the latter part of the month, that preoccupation was replaced with concerns over Dad and his insidious heart issues. 

February, was the month I headed home where Dad lay in a hospital in critical condition. He would die one week later.  In that first week with Mom, it became obvious that our (my sister and I) suspicions of Dementia were well founded. Mom had it. 

March was the month I decided to move back home to take care of Mom. The decision was not an easy one and only came after an extended period of agonizing talks with God, prayer and self-reflection.  

May was an eventful month! 

It was the month I officially moved back home. But one week before the move my best friend from work died.  Heart issues. He had wanted to get together when I came back to gather my stuff, but I told I had to get it all done quickly so perhaps another time. Academic since his life ended prematurely. 

The same week I moved into Mom's house I had a biopsy done on that asymmetrical prostate from 2021 which went ignored. Diagnosis: high grade prostate cancer.

June.  Halfway through a year I hoped would improve over its predecessor, I found myself a caretaker for Mom with her slow death of Dementia and a life-threatening illness of my own. My prostate was removed in June. 

The anguish experienced the remainer of the year with Mom is documented here under the Dementia label. Healing took place nicely and I was free of cancer although I would not be declared cancer-free for three years. That day never came. 

2022, the year of transition. What more can I say? Life went down the rabbit hole, which was scary. But God was there. It would just take a while for me to wake up and see Him.