Salt Lake Heart-to-Heart

"A window of opportunity won't open itself."

Somehow dad made the most of a break in his own cancer treatment, and the improvement in how he felt to arrange tickets to fly to Salt Lake City with mom to visit David and Mary Ann. It was next to impossible for travel to occur the other way around.
But the window seemed to close, when dad had a hospitalization 12 days before the trip was scheduled. And David landed back in his hospital the week before. Still dad recovered, and was cleared to go just days ahead. And David was stabilized, albeit now closer than ever to be short-listed for a heart transplant. He was eager for the visit.
My role was to fly from Seattle, meet mom and dad in SLC and provide chauffeuring, facilitating, and hopefully no medical back-up. I was a bit cautious(skeptical) that this window would stay open long and wide enough over a weekend, to allow for lots of quality time.
So what happened? We had a great visit. Words were said and quality time was spent... somehow face-to-face time is even better than a phone call. Mom and Dad were inspirational just in their presence. David was inspired to share more hope and feelings and a plan for the rest of his life. Faith came up often. Life is seen with a much clearer focus when a life threatening illness is sitting in the same room. And we had at least two of these deadly 'elephants' in the room. They stayed at bay.