In case you were Wondering, Rhiannon does ring like a bell in the night

Update to The Wonder of Rhiannon:

I didn’t want to say a word until the surgery was over, but now it’s done. I’ve met with the surgeon who is pleased and hopeful a full recovery is eminent.

“There’s no reason she won’t live a normal life now,” she told me, then smiled and walked out of the consult room like she hadn't just delivered a miracle.

I sobbed. A dam crumbled and sadness pent up for nearly three years of watching my daughter suffer poured out. It was graceful at first and then with abandon.

But not for long before I pulled myself together and went down to postop and found my girl Rhiannon in high spirits true to the last verse of Natalie Merchant's Wonder. Fate finally smiled on her:

And destiny laughed as she came to my cradle

Know this child will be able

Laughed as she came to my mother

Know this child will notsuffer

Laughed as my body she lifted

Know this child will be gifted

With love, with patience and with faith

She'll make her way, she'll make her way

And then, for the first time in years she began making concrete plans for the future. They look like this: "Shop for a hot looking dress. Get massage - a Swedish massage. Go see my friends." 

No excuses friends, come get your girl. Take her shopping, go to a movie, get a mani pedi. It's time she started making her way. Time she started living.