A Matter of Life and Death
Back in January, I had a reminder of how fragile life can be with a close-up brush with my own mortality. I went in to see my doctor for a routine exam, as I have dozens of times before. While palpating my abdomen, I saw a “different” look come across her face. She felt around a little more, and finally, carefully, told me that she could feel a lump on one of my ovaries. I needed to go to Durango right away for an ultrasound to see if it was a cyst or cancer.
Well, “right away” turned out to be a few days, which gave me more time than I really wanted to think and worry about it! On the other hand, it gave me some time to begin to prepare for the worst. I started thinking seriously about my own mortality. Death as an abstract concept is not that hard to grasp. We all know intellectually that we will die “sometime”. But death knocking on your front door is a different matter. I wasn’t ready to face that yet!
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