a very good friend of meopen my eyes to how lucky we all are
well as you know prior to me having a stroke i use to work at c.k.v.u. a telivision station in vancouver, as a news editor any way i had a very good and close friend who use to go fishing with me quite a bit and we use to love going on the boat and just fishing and talking any way i had my stroke and ti went to gf stong it is a rehab hospital for stroke patients and i was only one mounth since my stroke so i was very out of it not sure what i was going to do with my life and i was in such bad shape not really sure where to start in other words scared to think of what next now that i am like this where do i begin and thinking oh woo is me why did this have to happen and i remember after feeling very sorry for myself a very good friend came to visit me in rehab he was sad and quite and just staredat me and ask well how are yoiu doing?and how are you feeling?and of coare i told my friend that i had just had a stroke and i will be laid up for who knows how long lots of rehab lots of wondering just how far i could go to getting better and then my friend told me something that change all of that for me i ask well how are you anyway and then he told me that he has cancer of the throat and the prognoses wasn"t good and then he says i know you don"t think that youknow whats going to happen but i know what will happen to me well anyway my friend knowing that the cancer will eventually end his life but my friend did the best that he could to make his life tolerable and it was at that time that i made a decision to do exactly what my friend did fight to the bitter end and learn to live my life to the fullest because that is all that i have and i wasn"t even sure how long i have so i might as well make the best of it well asfate would have it my very good fisherman buddy died of cancer ofthe throat but the courage that he has changed my attitude about life and what it is all about no one is sure how long we have but i do know that i have to continue doing the best that i can and tring to instill the hope that you have to have because that is what my friend taught me how to enjoy the momentand thank you for showing me that you have made me a better person for that and even though we never caught much fish in the boat i still had a very good lesson in friend ship and in loving life so thank yopu
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