Maybe they should have asked the Creator about the timing.....He is the One who determines that.
Since I had worked before as the only help for a GP, I knew the hardest thing a physician
had to do was give bad news to a patient; especially one he'd had only two months.
When he got to the part of "All I can do is hold your hand while you go down the tubes," I interrupted him to tell him it was all right - I knew The Great Physician - and Whose Timetable is is!!
He was disbelieving, but I meant it, seeing ANY time left allowed me to tell loved ones and friends things that needed saying.
The funny thing was as a Department Secretary in a major hospital (Greensboro, NC), I interacted literally with all staff and most physicians, having coffee privileges in the Physician Lounge.
Word of the diagnosis and prognosis circulated throughout the grapevine, and they waited for me to decline and become depressed - HA!
I bounced along those corridors for nine more years, in their professional faces, demonstrating Who is in charge of all things!
He finally put His sheep out to pasture, and I found the grazing land of Free Republic!
I am blessed, sixteen years later still essentially the same so far as kidney function is concerned.
To Him goes the Praise and Glory!