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Life can be so fleeting
Feb. 13th, 2007 10:43 amThis is not the time for bad news. I'm just beginning to feel better after the cold from hell. 3 days of fever to 101. Enough to make you really miserable and cranky, not enough to leave you out of it. Coughing loud enough to sound like a lung will come flying out of my mouth. Today, I actually feel better and more like myself again.
And I'm more grateful for it than I can say.
Last Friday a colleague of mine, just 8 years my senior died in the ICU after an extremely short illness. I was told he'd thought he had a cold, which turned out to be a pneumonia. It landed him in the ICU in respiratory failure, followed by renal shut down and his demise shortly thereafter. It leaves me numb and just shaking my head.
This is followed by the news hear from a web acquaintance of the death of my friend Wes this past weekend. He'd suffered a stroke a week earlier, which had landed him in the ICU on a respirator. His next of kin withdrew life support at 10 Saturday morning and he was gathered unto God a few minutes later. He was 42 years old.
I have patients to see right now, but what I really feel like doing is sitting down and having a good cry.
And I'm more grateful for it than I can say.
Last Friday a colleague of mine, just 8 years my senior died in the ICU after an extremely short illness. I was told he'd thought he had a cold, which turned out to be a pneumonia. It landed him in the ICU in respiratory failure, followed by renal shut down and his demise shortly thereafter. It leaves me numb and just shaking my head.
This is followed by the news hear from a web acquaintance of the death of my friend Wes this past weekend. He'd suffered a stroke a week earlier, which had landed him in the ICU on a respirator. His next of kin withdrew life support at 10 Saturday morning and he was gathered unto God a few minutes later. He was 42 years old.
I have patients to see right now, but what I really feel like doing is sitting down and having a good cry.
