I’m on the next flight out to see you
In about six hours, I will be on a flight to Seoul to see Rusty. A new scan yesterday cleared him for take off. Dr Banovic came into the waiting room and told him the good news. In less than four hours, Rusty was on a plane back to Asia.
When I spoke to him this morning, he had just landed and was feeling poorly. His shoulder hurt. He was running a slight fever. When I announced to him that I had taken the next week off and would be on the first flight tomorrow to see him, he cried.
In the last two months, Rusty has had three surgeries and two rounds of chemotherapy without me by his side. Earlier this week he wrote me an email that said:
“I really need to see you this weekend - I need the scan to be ok for me to fly. I need you to come up and just hold me and take care of me for the weekend. This is what I need now more than anything. I want us to eat macrobiotic food and chill out and watch tv and hold hands and snuggle.”