{"id":1910,"date":"2024-02-01T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2024-02-02T00:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:52:04","slug":"a-dying-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"A Dying Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A young lady I worked with 3 jobs ago is dying. I accepted a friend request from her maybe 9 months ago and was a bit shocked to find out she was undergoing chemotherapy. At the time I didn&#8217;t pay much attention, she was young (a couple or so years younger than I) and was undergoing treatment. Was posting about her son&#8217;s acceptance to college, and you could tell how proud she was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then today, she announced she entered hospice and directed all correspondence to her husband stating she couldn&#8217;t rest properly with the social media distractions, and that the drugs wouldn&#8217;t allow her to answer anyhow. As Sandy works in hospice, I know you don&#8217;t go on hospice unless your caregivers have determined that you only have 3 to 6 months to live. While I sit here contemplating the eventual demise that will come at some future indeterminant time, someone is preparing to die. I don&#8217;t know what I would do, and as horrified as I am to imagine what she must be going through, my thoughts also are with her husband and son. While death is unavoidable, this situation just feels&#8230; I want to say unfair, but nobody ever said life was fair. And no matter how you try to spin it as part of the natural order, it just feels sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young lady I worked with 3 jobs ago is dying. I accepted a friend request from her maybe 9 months ago and was a bit shocked to find out she was undergoing chemotherapy. At the time I didn&#8217;t pay much attention, she was young (a couple or so years younger than I) and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/homeSite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}