I was the one who had to be practical when you first informed us there might be a problem. So let me now tell you that with this news, it's as if a great weight has been lifted from me. I am releived that you are well.
My heart is still heavy because a freind is dying of cancer. She hasn't got long to live. I have a need to visit her again, to let her know that I love her. She is 10 years or more older than me. But she is a lady of character, an honorable woman who lived her beliefs, and who was a good freind. She helped me remember who I am, what I believe in. She was an example to me.
When we are young, death is an infrequent player in our lives. We know it happens, but it is remote. It's something that happens to others, not us or our freinds. At my age (50) some of our freinds appear old, while others are as spirited as they were at 30. But the age of people becomes less important to us. We find ourselves friends with people 25 years or more older, and younger than we are. And some of those people are ready to leave mortality, or close to it.
We can only make sure they know we love them, and that they have made a difference in our lives, and that we have been made richer by knowing them. We cannot stop death. We do learn ways to cope with it, to understand its nature, and hopefully to learn of our imortality so that death isn't such a scary place, but rather, a gate to worlds we don't yet understand.
Wasabi, you are a freind to all on this site, including me. I am sure that I speak for everyone, though many have posted before me, that we are greatful that you will be around for a long time to come. You are precious to us. Go give your hubby a hug and drink in life with your most important freind.
Seeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
P.S. It's time you knew my name.
Seeeeeeya; Bob