Somehow, this changes everything...

There's a phenomenon known as synchronicity, first described by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung in the 1920s, wherein two or more events, that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. There is an interstice between synchronicity and chaos theory, wherein the flap of a butterfly's wings are held to cause a tornado in Texas.

When Jo first suffered the ill effects of her brain operation in 2008 there appeared to me to be the same sort of relationship between the life-changing events in our lives and those in the world at large. Jo's period of critical care, where her life literally hung in the balance and the subsequent dawning of the negative effects of her brain operation, took place against the backdrop of the looming financial crisis and the election of the first black president of the United States, both very significant occurrences and it was hard for me to separate the portentousness of them from the massive changes taking place in our two lives.

Now, for the first time in just over two years, Jo is back in hospital, fighting off multiple infections in her lungs and urinary tract and a pulmonary thrombosis. This time the backdrop is the "Jasmine revolution" in Tunisia and the subsequent revolution now being played out on our television screens in Egypt.

I cannot escape the ineffable feeling that this is a positive portend, both for the future of the world and for Jo's rehabilitation. Just as the pundits are saying about Egypt, I am not sure how this will change things but one cannot deny that this changes everything.

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