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Sunday, 19 March 2006
Beth: Hospitals
In the past few years, I have begun watching a few hospital shows. I started watching "ER" about four years ago - yes, well after the show started and long after George Clooney left the cast, but I still like it. In recent months, I have also joined the "Grey's Anatomy" bandwagon, and have come to enjoy that cast as well. I am not a die-hard fan of either, but I'll try to watch them if I'm home during the nights they are on.
This may surprise the people that know me well, for I am pretty notorious for my fear of hospitals and all things medically related. I am not sure how I started watching two shows that center around my #1 fear, since they show things that I can't even watch - surgeries, injuries, incisions, etc. all make me turn away. My feet are a little tingly as I type this. But hospitals make me queasy. They smell funny and are full of pain, fear and sorrow. They are not comforting places.
That's why I am thankful that my aunt Sandi never has to go to a hospital again. After a many-year battle with cancer that had spread throughout her body, Sandi passed away at her home in Iowa on Friday, with her immediate family by her side. And although her illness meant we hadn't seen much of their family in recent years, the news is no less painful to hear, save for the fact that we're all glad she's not hurting anymore.
If you are a praying person, please keep my uncle Dave and their children, Jodi and Jon and their families, in your prayers. The days following the funeral on Tuesday will be even harder, I'm sure.
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