OT: I’m quite depressed, Brother is nearing the end of his battle Options

[Mark Henry]

Just got off the phone with my brother Steve he is nearing the end of his battle with cancer. The doctor hates to say how long but were down to weeks.
They're taking him off all his meds, just morphine.
He wants to go home.

I think I'm going to go have a good cry....59 is too young...

[scottb]

hey mark,

i am so sorry for what you are going through. i lost my mom unexpectedly at age 59. yep, way too early.

it may be cliche' but this brief story really helped me during tough times. it's all a journey my friend.... chin up.

scott

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GONE FROM MY SIGHT


am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!"

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes!"

And that is dying.

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