Great progress Pug..every day will be better and you will be stronger...today I lost my college roommate and friend of fifty years to small cell lung cancer..we were making plans for our next reunion..great athlete and never smoked ..go figure..life changes fast as you well know..
Thanks for the likes and responses, guys; your encouragement helps so much.
Manning, thank you for sharing your grief for your long time friend, which I found touching.
Just a few years ago I also lost an old friend and ex work colleague; a wonderful man on so many levels.
Sadly he was struck down by a short and sudden illness.
I was shocked to hear he was in hospital, so I took the chance and phoned him, to find he was in extreme pain.
I knew I was losing him there and then; overwhelmed with emotion, I'm not embarrassed to say I told him I loved him; he said the same.
He passed early the next day.
His daughter arranged a 'green' burial, which I attended not knowing I would be called to help lower him into the Earth.
Man, was that a humbling privilege; a massive moment of closure.
A cruel reminder of our mortality: how 'things can change in the blink of an eye'.
Never miss the opportunity to tell someone you love that you love them.
