Jim

[poohbearjim]

I am having the hardest time trying to write this update on Jim’s health. He’s not dead. That is to say his body is still breathing and reacting to pain and pain medication, but aside from that, he’s not really alive either

Comments

[philhasablog]

Thanks for writing again. Over the months I've learned a lot reading first Jim's entries, and now yours. We've never met but I'm grateful for your forthrightness. I'm a kinder, more thoughtful man for having heard this part of your story.

Thank you, and bless you both.

[teddyb]

I cannot begin to know what it is like dealing with this day in and day out. My father went through it when my stepmother fought her bout with cancer, and even now, I know there is much he will never be able to share with me and will always keep bottled up.

I know how much you love Jim, and how much in love with you he was for all the time I've known him.

As hard as this is for you, I am glad to know that Jim is being looked after as well as anyone can be, and that he is surrounded by your love.

I feel so inadequate, because I have no words that will bring you the comfort I want to.

You are both in my thoughts an in my heart.

Big hugs and much love to you and Jim, Ray.

[reslbear]

I wish you strength, courage, love and peace.

[keanubear]

Greg and I are thinking of you both...

[furr_a_bruin]

I can't know what it's like to deal with this day to day, but I can relate to the anguish of seeing the person you love vanish while the body struggles on. Both my mother (kidney failure) and her sister (strokes) went through a similar phase. It's bad enough to lose someone you love, but so much worse to have to watch their personality unravel and fade away.

This seems so far away from when his cancer was discovered and they thought they'd caught it early enough that he had a good chance to beat it.

I wish there were something I could say or do that would make things better somehow.