JPenny
09-27-2004, 08:07 PM
Hi-ya, friends: :grouphug
I didn't fly today . . . just went to visit a friend in the hospital. I've worked closely with her on a project the last three years, and she's become more like a family member than a friend or co-worker. Anyway, she's got an inoperable tumor, cancer, surrounding her bronchial tube and aorta. She can hardly breathe. They've begun giving her morphine, which I'm told is a sign that the end is near. It was beyond pitiful to watch her struggle to get each breath. On the way home, I considered: which is worse? To die in a crash that lasts maybe a few minutes, or eke out of life slowly with pain and misery, slow suffocation?
I can't say for sure, but I think I will have a different perspective the next time I fly. I used to think dying in a plane crash was the most horrible way to go. What an idiot I was!! There are far worse ways to go.
Hope I'm not depressing anyone. :rolleyes It's a depressing day here, with the rain and wind and gloom from Jeanne descending on us. A moment ago I heard the loud noise of a huge jet passing overhead. We don't live far from an air base where they take military planes for repair. No parts have fell in the yard since we've lived here. :) Anyway, all that to say that the planes are still doing their stuff, even in this messy weather.
Well, that's my "blog" for the day. Hope everyone's doing well.
Jean in SC :wave
I didn't fly today . . . just went to visit a friend in the hospital. I've worked closely with her on a project the last three years, and she's become more like a family member than a friend or co-worker. Anyway, she's got an inoperable tumor, cancer, surrounding her bronchial tube and aorta. She can hardly breathe. They've begun giving her morphine, which I'm told is a sign that the end is near. It was beyond pitiful to watch her struggle to get each breath. On the way home, I considered: which is worse? To die in a crash that lasts maybe a few minutes, or eke out of life slowly with pain and misery, slow suffocation?
I can't say for sure, but I think I will have a different perspective the next time I fly. I used to think dying in a plane crash was the most horrible way to go. What an idiot I was!! There are far worse ways to go.
Hope I'm not depressing anyone. :rolleyes It's a depressing day here, with the rain and wind and gloom from Jeanne descending on us. A moment ago I heard the loud noise of a huge jet passing overhead. We don't live far from an air base where they take military planes for repair. No parts have fell in the yard since we've lived here. :) Anyway, all that to say that the planes are still doing their stuff, even in this messy weather.
Well, that's my "blog" for the day. Hope everyone's doing well.
Jean in SC :wave