Perspective?

Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson

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Got the call no one wants to get this morning. My father has fallen ill and is not expected to last much longer. I hurriedly packed one of my cars and headed out. Not one hour into my trip I passed within minutes and just a few feet of a multiple fatality accident. All quite gory and way to real. Then the snow storm hit for the next six and half hours. Now I just sit in a hotel room in West Texas wondering what it is all about. Some days you just have to question the value of what we do. Today is that day.
 
Hang in there Paul.

I lost my mother in 1993 when my family went to a pilgrimage, the car my father was driving went over a cliff. Moments later, I was at the ER of a hospital watching over 3 beds with bloodied and mangled persons that is my Father, brother and sister. My mother, I was told,
died on the spot, and due to the precarious condition of the accident site, was left there.

I still reflect on that day when I was suppose to be on that trip and at the very last moment, my mother patted me shoulder and said, "no, don't go with us, stay here and watch over the house."

Everything happens for a reason, call it divine or coincidence or what. My staying home meant there was someone left to take care of them at the hospital.

We may never know the reason for why everything happens in our lives, we can only continue to live on. -trying to be better than what we were yesterday.

Hang in there.
 
Paul- rather than questioning the value of what we do (no, we're not doctors, we don't save lives), it might be more a matter of doing what you can do.
And about all you can do is be there, and you are.

I don't know if you father can still see or hear you, but whether he can or not, be sure to say any things you feel you need to say.
My father died when I was 11, and there's all sorts of things I wished I told him, all these years later.

And now my mom has dementia, so I tell her things, but they don't really stick, or if they do, they're quickly forgotten. But I say them anyway, for both of us.

I feel for you and wish you the best at this painful point.

Thanks for sharing,

Chuck
 
Thanks Paul for being open and sharing your observations and insight. I pray your father is doing well.
 
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