Pain

Next Monday morning I go into the hospital to have a total knee replacement.  I am very apprehensive and miss not having Denise here to discuss this with.  After listening she would probably have made some kind of  joke about it and we would both have ended up laughing.  Once when visiting her father in the hospital after a heart attack she observed the oxygen gadget on his finger and lifting and pointing his finger upward,  she smiled and said, "ET phone home."  This immediately made her father laugh and a scary and serious situation was lightened for the moment.  No one could have an illness or injury that Denise couldn't make a joke about while still being compassionate.  This was one of her many wonderful ways.

I think of the pain I am going to have to endure after my surgery.   Denise endured so much pain for all those years with  needles constantly being stuck in her until her veins were collapsing and she  had to have surgery to place a port in her chest.  The vaccination shots she had every week that left sore lumps in her arms when she was participating in the clinical trial study.  Being fitted for a mask to hold her head steady while she went thru radiation.  Having her brain probed to biopsy the tumor.  How dare I complain of pain, she never did.   My pain will gradually subside and I will be fine, but Denise endured everything that came her way and she still lost the battle.

Too many children and adults are going thru exactly what Denise did and should be able to recover.  We  need to find out what is causing this horrible cancer and put an end to it, please help our cause.

Thank you for being one of Denise's People.