Fathers eyes

I am going to tread lightly with this.  I saw this picture and immediately thought of the song "my fathers eyes" by Eric Clapton.  The reason for treading lightly is one of my very best friends just lost his father in December.  I was devastated for my friend because he and his dad were best friends, as my dad and I are best friends.  I could not do this with out him.  I have heard and read all of the unimaginably nice things everyone has said about me.  If you get a chance look into my fathers eyes and see if you see where I got it.   I bet you do.  I look at this picture and I see my son looking into my eyes and his expression to me says something like "OK dad whats next?  We've gotten this far.  I don't care what it is, we will do it...TOGETHER." My response is "tell me all of your hopes and all of your dreams, and I will get US there."
Today was a relatively quite day for Benzen.  He has been under photo therapy for about two days now.  He looks much better and he is much more active.  He also is eating better.  He gained 4.75 ounces in the last 12-24 hours.  I'll be glad when he is done with it.  Really, no test results came in, no tests were done, his vitals are great, and his blood work looks good.
I don't know if I mentioned this but the medicine Benzen is on (Ganciclovir) is just a notch below Chemotherapy.  One of Benzen's guest today was my God mother Marty Perkins.  I had heard Marty was coming and I was so excited!  She is a breast cancer survivor, strong person, and always a joy to be around.  More importantly someone that could relate to the medicine Benzen is getting.  As soon as she held him there was an immediate eternal bond.
My 24 hour feel bad for yourself time was up this morning.  I am really excited about what my new path has in store for me.  Marty asked me today if I wished I could speed up time.  I think my response was something like "as long as there is no more bad news, but no I would not"  I think Benzen is where he needs to be.  He needs to relax, get this medicine, and take things slow.  We could not really do that at home.  Another thing my dad always told us was "feel the time."  Meaning there are moments in our lives we think will last forever but they are over in the blink of an eye.  So take it all in while your in the moment.
Thanks for all the love and support-I feel it all!
Ben