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Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD's avatar

Charles, I am happy that this writing is giving you some comfort and a sense of community with other people grieving (like myself). Grief is an incredibly isolating experience. I meant to write this before, but Lisa opened up one of my blog posts 10 times in the final months. It is the one called, "Not Tonight Grief, I Have a Headache". I hope it helped her.

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Charles Gust's avatar

This made me tear up. Thank you.

I am thankful you are willing to share your thoughts, feelings and perspective. I am thankful you have the medical training that can give me a glimpse of what my spouse’s doctors went through.

Right after reading this, I explicitly invited my spouse’s oncologist to the Celebration of Life later this month.

Thank you.

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Florian Hladik's avatar

The randomness of cruelty is scary, really scary, but it's also what propels humankind forward. We have some control over what happens to us, but imagine a world in which unfortunate events were enterely non-random. I think we would lose our souls.

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