[Magdalen] damned sarc

[Clarissa Canning]

prayers for you.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> My friends,
> This thing called "Sarcoidosis:  The Thing That Kills You Slowly," has
> taken more from me in the past two weeks.  Pain meds that have worked
> wonders for me are now doing nothing for this pain. My vision is getting
> worse, my spelling is worse, and my shortness of breath is worse. I have
> trouble holding things and dropping said things, and the only thing I can
> do is vent about it.
>
> My nurse, who is very good, was sad last Friday when I told her that my
> prayer, every night, is that God take me while I sleep.  When I saw Annie
> and Ben last week (Pizza and Documentaries) I told them I want to live to
> see a grandson! They want a boy and have already have a name for him:
> Joseph Zephaniah Afton,  Joe after my dad and Zephaniah because it's
> Annie's favorite Book of the Bible.
>
> Thank you for letting me vent. Naively, and with 30 years of nursing under
> my belt, I hadn't realized how how difficult it is to die. I'm reminded of
> our first lecture in Nursing 101, delivered by Mrs. Audrey Fay: "Whether
> you graduate and get a nursing license, or wash out for whatever reason,
> you will learn three things: Life isn't fair, life isn't easy, and people
> die."
> Grace and peace,
> jon
>