[Magdalen] Hard Losses

[Suzie Buchanan]

Those are hard losses indeed. And much to ponder as you and your wife step forward in your own journey together.  Prayers for you both and for the families of those who have lost loved ones. 

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> On Jan 19, 2022, at 4:45 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’ve lost two friends younger than me in the last five days. Doug, age 65,
> died at home in hospice care after liver and kidney failure. He’d had a
> transplant about twenty years ago because of some inherited, I think,
> condition. With the new organs now failing he wasn’t a candidate for
> another transplant so dialysis and then hospice.
> 
> Paul, my wife’s 64 year old former brother-in-law and friend since high
> school, suffered a massive stroke late last week and was rushed into brain
> surgery, but in the end it was determined that nothing more could be done.
> His family got a chance to say goodbye and life support was removed this
> morning. He died peacefully today.
> 
> It all makes me very sensitive to my own mortality and worried for my wife
> if anything should happen to me. She’s battling a new incidence of cancer
> although the prognosis is encouraging. Total hysterectomy six weeks ago due
> to endometrial cancer. No indication of metastasis. Radiation to start in a
> couple of weeks. No call for chemotherapy so far. Prayers for all concerned
> are welcome.
> -- 
> 
> Christopher Hart
> 
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