[Magdalen] Hard Losses
Grace Cangialosi
gracecan at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 15:53:45 UTC 2022
Prayers for your peace of mind, Christopher. Those kinds of losses are hard.
Grace
> 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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