On Being Home

The doctors and nurses at the Cleveland Clinic often commented on Bayla's sweet personality. How little she complained, for instance, while they poked her over and over again last Sunday and Monday, searching for a a vein. But the truth is that from the moment she woke up from the surgery last Shabbos until she was discharged, she never babble-talked and showed, at most, the occasional hint of a smile. So it has felt like a miracle to hear Bayla talking and to see her smile again this weekend.