At the Grotto of Our Immaculate Conception, in Lourdes
Daniel (14+ years old)
Friday, September 11, 2009
Day 2 in Lourdes (evening) …
“Here are your pills, Daniel …”
You were in bed.
You turned around, stretched your hand out for your medication which You swallowed in one gulp with a glass of water.
Then You lay back on your pillow, shut your eyes, and tried to take a nap. You did not want to talk, Mom could see that, and she did not attempt to ask or tell You anything.
Ask … there was plenty she wanted to ask, but tell … she had nothing.
Anxiously, she tried to reason in her mind what had happened.
Before You went for the bath, You had agonizing back pains, but ONLY back pains.
Your head was all good.
Now, after the bath, your back was apparently worse than before and what was more, the headache had come back.
The headache came back?
It just did not make sense.
At all previous times, whenever You say the dreaded word “headache,” it indicated a recurrence. You have never had a headache that went away with two panadols.
Your headache was always the first sign that the naughty cell had returned, and You had to be treated eventually with an open brain surgery.
Your last and final surgery was in June 2009.
That was only 3 months ago.
It came back already???
