Our oldest daughter is experiencing her first bout in some time of a severely painful recurring health issue that she has been dealing with since she was a preteen. She is planning on being here for Thanksgiving dinner for the first time in a few years.
I can't help but wonder whether these two things are related, whether her body is rebelling against the stress of coming here and being with me. I don't especially have a reason to believe this is the case, but I'm thinking of how I feel - or maybe, since it has been so long since we've even talked, I should stick in the past tense: how I used to feel - when I was going to be spending time with my step-father. Of course, since the late 90's that has probably had more to do with him being an unrelenting judgmental redneck than any other unrepentance he had over the rest of our history, and neither of those conditions applies to my relationship with our daughter.
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