After a While

[amigone]

The social worker put this poem in the book of prayers, etc. that we have at work for when people of different faith need a bit of encouragement, and our spiritual care director is not there. The poem make me think about the different goodbyes that I've had over my life

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[purewhitestars]

beautiful.

[sliveredlight]

Thank you for that. I've passed it on to a friend who is hurting for the recent loss of her mom. I also lost a casual friend yesterday to cancer, so I'm a bit contemplative. I'll elaborate later when I'm not at work :s

[amigone]

I'm sorry about your friend, even the loss of a casual friend is hard. Really cements the fact that we're only here for a short while.

Elaborate when you can.

[sliveredlight]

My most recent post in my own journal spills it basically. Plus the one friend I found out is in remission from lymphoma (good news, but still scary).

- the lady who passed on yesterday was a former manager at a couple of places I worked.
- a good friend of mine lost her mom last week (the one I'm passing the poem to).
- another friend my age is a recent transplant recipient - good news but not without its share of complications.
- another friend is 4.5 years ovarian cancer free.
- my grandmother on my dad's side died of complications of breast cancer.

I myself am going for additional testing in July to see if there's any reason for concern. Well, we know that there IS, but to what degree, basically.

[sliveredlight]

oh and one more friend who just recently did round 3 of chemo. his is a cancer of the blood if memory serves.