“Illness is the most heeded of Doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.” – Marcel Proust
This is in honor of my brother-in-law, Tom, who had a ruptured appendix on the ski slopes of Colorado yesterday. He couldn’t make it down the hill on his own after a fall, the pain being too severe at that point.
He spent two hours in surgery and they believe his is going to make a full recovery, but not before a big scare, lots of pain and a 5-7 day stay in the hospital.
This quote is true, but the further truth is that those promises to goodness and wisdom are often only made when we are in the middle of that severe pain we have to obey!
A big shout out to Bruce Hansen, undergoing chemo for cancer in Boston. His cancer is
in his neck, which is in Boston along with the rest of him and his wife Heidi. If you
know him, wish him well. If you don’t, wish someone else well.
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