Mia’s PLS Blog

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by…”

July 7th, 2009

My father sat in his living room last week and told my sister Mindee that if someone would have told him a year ago that half of his family would be in China during the 3rd week in June he would have laughed.  But they sat, wondering if my mom and sister had made it and worried about Noah and I.  China is not the place you think of when someone is ill and needing more answers then they are getting from their DR’s.  We think of the Mayo Clinic,  and not China.  It is certainly off the beaten path and a road that few have traveled.  We are the minority, the weary “mum” of a beautiful 2 year old boy named Cody from the UK.  The father who came alone with Ella who has 3 older siblings at home in Iowa is on the same journey of hope that Noah and I came in search of.  Or there is Michael who is 37 and here with his mom Debbie, blind from a bike accident or Kit who is paralyzed from a drunk driver who is here with both of his parents.  No matter who makes up the family dynamic- they are here, we are here, with so many loved ones  left behind in search of hope.  As we have shared our stories we  have the same sentiment as 3 of families leave tomorrow and another 2 on Wednesday- “no regrets!”  We would all do it again because- yes- this journey is about hope, but it is also about faith and love.  We would go to the ends of the earth to help ourselves and the people we love  more then anyone else in this world have a better quality of life.  So although Robert Frost’s poem is appropriate for me to say to all of you- to the people I leave behind- that road became a beautiful path when I joined-Cody and Stacey, and Don and Ella, and Michael and Debbie and Autumn and Kathy and Arjay and Angel and the many others who have not only helped me down the path, but are giving me the courage to keep on the path that only we have traveled together.  And when the next opportunity comes for me to seek “the road less traveled” what will I do?  With hope in my heart I will have “took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” And when I step on that path all my friends here from China will be there too.

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