[Magdalen] Prayers please

[JAMES HANDSFIELD]

In my experience, especially with this disease, is that it is indeed a relief for many reasons, but it did not reduce my grief.

Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

“Thou shalt not commit nincompoopery.”
— Carl Sandburg






> On Nov 14, 2022, at 3:37 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> Of your charity please pray for my sister-in-law Margaret Stokes who died this evening. She was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease five years ago and for most of that time has been cared for at home, mostly by my brother Ian with some support from carers coming in daily. A live-in carer started in February this year when my brother was persuaded to agree to this, a great relief to him and the family of three daughters who all live some distance away. They were born on the same day and celebrated their Golden Wedding in July with a concert in their parish church where Margaret continued as PCC (Vestry) Secretary for a while even after the disease started limiting her. Her brain remained sharp at the Wedding celebration she was able to greet people and communicate through an iPad where she could spell out words which were then turned into speech recorded by her eldest daughter.
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> While Ian said that her death is a relief he will feel the loss after a long marriage and, sadly, he will not even have the relief of faith in this having turned away from the Church long ago for reasons I do not know.
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> Roger
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