Small steps in faith

Saturday, July 09, 2005

One year

When you look back at a year in your life what do you think of?
Succcesses? Failures? Hurts? Joys? Births? Deaths?
What did you do in that year to make a difference? to make an impact?
I have spent the last 2 days with a patient and his wife who have just found out that he has pancreatic cancer with metastases to the liver and probably has 6 months prognosis What do you do when someone gives you that news? It just makes you stop and think ......

Seasons of Love

Five hundrend twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
Five hundrend twenty five thousand
moments so dear
Five hundrend twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year

In daylight, in sunsets, in midnights,
in cups of coffee, In inches, in miles
in laughter in strife,

In Five hundrend twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life

(chorus)
How about Love
how about love
how about love
measure in love
seasons of love
seasons of love

Five hundrend twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
Five hundrend twenty five thousand
journeys to plan
Five hundrend twenty five thousand
six hundred minutes
how do you measure the life of a woman
or a man

In truth that she learned
or in times that he cried
In the bridges he burned
or the way that she died

Its time now to sing out
though the story never ends
lets celebrate remember a year
in the life of friends

4 Comments:

  • At 11:15 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    That song kills me still...I cant make fun of it too much because that would be mean towards the post:)

     
  • At 11:25 AM, Blogger Rochelle said…

    It wouldn't be mean toward the post You can be honest Tyler but you better get used to hearing that song when the movie comes out this fall :)

     
  • At 4:39 PM, Blogger SonSon said…

    My brother died less than 2 years ago of pancreatic cancer. It too had mets to the liver. They told him he had 14 months (wasn't a very pancreatic cancer knowlegdable doctor). He died after 11 heartbreaking weeks. There is an awesome organization called PanCAN that helps people with pancreatic cancer. If you get a chance, please please please refer the patient you spoke to to them. They can be found online at www.pancan.org We wish we'd known about them when my brother was diagnosed. I feel for your patient. 6 months is actually very optimistic for this cancer with mets. I have no idea how I would react, even after going thru it with my brother (he was 38). Thanks

     
  • At 11:43 PM, Blogger Rochelle said…

    Thank you for your information on PanCan I will definitely give them the website and also the oncology nurses I'm so sorry that you had to go through that with your brother..that had to be very hard

     

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