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Doc says you have ____ this long to live
plains scout
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or have good health? What would you do? Come on and be real about this one. No glib answers or shallow response. Had it happen to me once -- verdict was 2 hours to 2 days max (that was 9 years ago this month. Docs are not always right and sometimes can not understand the power of prayer and determination. So what would you do? When you finish your responses I will come back and let you know choices I made. You might want to read this and come back to it in 4 hours or so, that is how long it took me to make my final decision.
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Mad Dog
Greg
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ANGLICO
Well....I turned 51 last month.
"If they won't give us good terms, come back and we'll fight it out."
-- Gen. James Longstreet
I too have faced death several times--death is an old friend of mine. I truly don't sweat it.
Rafter-S
The 10mm - either you've got it, or you don't get it...
bambihunter, If helping it along means what I think it does, you best talk it over with a minister. The "home" you will go to may not be the one you want.
My humble suggestion,
Rafter-S
This was well over a year ago and I was literally at the end of the amount of perpetual pain I could endure. For reasons literally only god knows, the pain was reduced to a manageable level that has allowed my life to return to some 'semblance of a real life.
Kids that fish, hunt and trap have never mugged any old ladies!
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This was the Ancient law of Youth
Old times are past, old times are done:
But the Law runs true, O little son!
I'd not change that too much, but carry on like this if I got a "verdict" like the Doc's give.
However, not wanting to end up in a nursinghome or unable to do anything or being dependant on machines - being a bother on my family - ...
I've come to realize that I'd want to end it by my own hand, before it got that far.
Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
In his case I believe they may be right. He has elected to spend what time he has left travelling the U.S.(health permitting).
I hope & pray things turn out different but he called from Harrah's in Nevada last night & said he was really getting tired, might come home early.
I don't know what I'd do in his shoes but my hat's off to ANYONE who can find a way to cope with that much adversity & remain sane.
[:(][:(]barto[:(][:(]
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.-JFK
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment." - - - - Dag Hammarskjold
"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven." - - - - Tryon Edwards
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"Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me." -Isaiah 6:8
I would just have to be thankful for what time I had with my family and friends! That's why I always try to live each day to the fullest, ya just never know when your number is up!
that's a fact. last thursday a friend of mine (36 years old) just dropped while taking a shower. don't know why but he sure appeared to be in good health last time i seen him.
"Life is not a journey to the grave wtih the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body,
But rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
-WOW- WHAT A RIDE!!!!!"
G36
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So when 9 years ago I was told 2 hours to 2 days and it was over, they offered an operation that I was told was risky and not likely to succeed and would leave me an invalid. I later found out the operation had been only tried once before and they guy died and that the ailment that I was suffering from (blocked portal vein) is normally found in an autopsy.
At first I thought I did not want to be a invalid or burden on my family and as my father had just died the month before and my cousin had been in a nursing home for 18 years because of a farm accident. So I told the docs and my wife thanks for the offer but I am checking out, permanently in a few hours to a couple of days.
The docs were stunned and my wife accepted it as I had had this talk with her for years. See I have never feared death, it is and was living that scares the daylights out of me.
I then requested a phone and called my two best friends and my business partner/friend and said goodbye and thanked them for being my friends. Then my kids arrived and I said goodbye to my 13 year old and my 11 year old.
Then 4 hours came and went and had a call back from one of my friends who was a doc and also another guy ICU nurse and then I had those 4 hours to think. What had I told my kids all their lives? NEVER GIVE UP! I could lay there and die and they would always remember their dad who talked the talk but did not walk the walk. I knew I was better off fulfilling my job as their dad if I died fighting than as a quiter.
The docs organized a team and surgury started in a half hour. I will not go into the details but I was there for 2 1/2 months and several more surgeries and several more close calls as I knocked on, opened the death's door, looked in and walked away. I walked out of there eating normally, functioning normally and also had full use of my noodle resting on my neck.
So what was the prayer I and my children and wife learned? "Thy will be done" Not my will but Thy will. Hard to accept but that was what I learned to accept.
What have I done since? Well bills still need to be paid. My kids had to go to college. Life went on and I went on. Now most people that knew me have forgot that I was ill. Those that did not know me don't have a clue.
Now another era comes and I face new challenges including health issues. What will I do different this time?
Spend more time with my family if they will have me. I will continue to try my best to be nicer to people, even though I was not so bad before. I will try to accomplish some of those journeys that I want to complete before my life's journey ends. Still I will work and move forward the same as I have the last 9 years giving of myself to to others and keeping in mind always: "Thy will, not my will, be done."
Hope our paths cross and we can share in person a fire and swap some of our hopes and dreams. Thanks for your comments and posts.
Go forth and live -- also, catch me if you can. [:)]
PS - My friend the doc died a little over a year ago at age 47. He was healthy and world famous in his field, head of a department at Johns Hopkins. God called him unexpectedly on our part but apparently not according to God's. No man knows the hour or moment.
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I
advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives
boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the
ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no
character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of
your walks." Thomas Jefferson
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"Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying who shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, here am I, send me." -Isaiah 6:8
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