I Spent Nearly Two Weeks Recovering From Surgery and My Husband Never Visited Once—Then I Came Home and Froze at the Front Door

The point was not completing a bucket list.

The point was allowing ourselves to test desires instead of admiring them from twenty years away.

We did visit Maine.

Beautiful.

Terrible lobster roll at one roadside restaurant.

Worth it.

PART 50 — THE HOUSE AFTER A YEAR

Eventually the renovations stopped feeling like:

the hospital house.

They became our home again.