transitioning......

ok, so there is a new way to be dying......a kinder, gentler way to think about it, at least......when one has cancer, or something else equally as terminal.......one is simply transitioning to the next phase......our friend the runner/doctor/environmentalist/thinker is currently transitioning by way of constant readmissions to the hospital..followed by going home to make the best the of the time he has left......the home health caretaker quit after 1 week......and so it will go until there are no more readmisions.......we learned yesterday that a dear family member is in much the same boat.......encouraged to go home to make the best of the time she has left......the family has heard all of this before.....a sister with what was considered a terminal brain tumor was sent home to make the best of her time.....but the brain tumor took 30 years to complete the transition........and so there must be some hope that this transition will take longer than what would be expected given the particulars......and reminds us that all of us are transitioning in some respects........and either the unknown hourglass of time that remains, or truly making the remains of the day count for all it is worth.......