Mortality

[keith44spl]

Prayers for you and your family.

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[crazyphil]

I am pain free. I actually feel much better than the weeks leading up to my heart attack. Time and meds are my hope for a recovery at this time. I appreciate all of the prayers and well wishes. They mean more than I can say. Stress? It as Alfred Hitchcock said: "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."

People you don't know are pulling for you. No man is an island (Who said that?). Seriously, all these life and mortality issues cannot be fully appreciated by anyone not going through them. My rationalization is to look around at the space age medical system we have that extends our comfortable lives and keeps us from sudden, middle age checkout. It is truly a modern miracle. Modern medicine has reduced many once fatal maladies to annoying chronic conditions that make us feel our age. Cardiac health is simply amazing and you are living proof. Next the virologists, geneticists and others will crack the code on cancers and the plagues that beset us. It will never come fast enough, especially for those of us will more sand in the bottom of the hour glass than the top, but it will come. 150 years ago the best doctors in the land were bleeding people with leeches and searching the ether for diseases. How silly they look now. Enjoy you life and take comfort in your faith.

John Donne said it about four hundred years ago:

No man is an island
Entire of itself.
Every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friends
Or of thine own were
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls.
It tolls for thee.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Prayers have been said for you today from the middle of nowhere in western Texas.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Peace be with you. I have used what influence that I have with the Almighty to look over you.