Passing this way, for both the cancer sufferer, and their family, its a blessing and a curse. The long goodbye is a great gift... and it is so very hard to accept.
God bless Elizabeth and her family.
“Passing this way, for both the cancer sufferer, and their family, its a blessing and a curse. The long goodbye is a great gift... and it is so very hard to accept.”
As a care-giver to long-term sufferers, I fail to see the blessings. Chemo, radiation, surgeries, severe pain, narcotics, families in crisis, bureaucratic red tape ... I see no gift in all this.
It’s a travesty that cancer patients are not told their true diagnosis, given false hope, and subsequently dragged through endless (unnecessary?) painful treatments ... which ultimately benefit the cancer center. Meanwhile, the shell-shocked caregivers, are kept in the dark and hit up for contributions to their “esteemed” cancer centers. It’s a friggin’ scam.
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God bless Elizabeth, and her children.
There is no such thing as a long goodbye, for a long goodbye is sitting around waiting for death. I have taken care of many patients in the final stages of a terminal illness. The long goodbyes are reserved for those who have not made peace in this world or the ones who have spent every second since the diagnosis so worried about not dying, they forget to live.
I cannot think of what would be worse..sitting around waiting for my death or having my family mourn my death every single day before I died.
There is a time to fight and a time to let go. It seems as if the time to let go has come for Mrs. Edwards. From her message, I sense she has come to terms with her mortality. I doubt this will be a long goodbye.