Why Fifty Two Hundred?

Why Fifty Two Hundred Photo? 5200 is the Bone Marrow Transplant unit where my son's life was saved. There I’ve known the deepest heartbreak, alongside the purest joy I've ever experienced. 

5200 is a place that can hold the grief and the joy, the beauty and the sorrow, the love and the loss. It contains it all. Every life is valued equally, every feeling is welcomed, there’s no filter here. You are your true self because there is no other way to be when you sit at the edge of life.

Søren and I walk the halls of 5200 sending love into each room we pass. Behind each door a story. Behind one door a family just received the worst news of their life, the next door a family is rejoicing a clear scan. 

Everywhere you turn there is love. 

5200 has come to mean more than the number of a hospital unit. It has come to be the place inside of me where I am my most authentic, vulnerable and truest self. With nothing to hide, searching for hope and beauty in a difficult world. 

I will carry this with me always, and do my very best to make the most of the precious life I was given. I do it to honor the friends I’ve loved and lost on 5200. 

Some days I worry I’ve lost my way. I begin to take this life for granted. And someone asks me why Fifty Two Hundred, what is in a name? 

Everything. Every reminder of where I’ve been, who I want to be and how I want to move forward.

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