Sunday, June 28, 2009

When Do I Take Mobile Off Crib

Still living



He discovered that he had cancer when it his body was able to defeat him.
He knew nothing, asked nothing.
only recently able to talk about calling his illness as he had.
Before you looked into my eyes and told you he was ill, suffering, who do not take it anymore.
But that look was a request for silence.
wanted you near.
wanted your company.
But without words. The words
tired. Applications
above.
Silence.
Even after returning home, after long months in hospital, did not want to hear the truth that perhaps he had always kept hidden somewhere in his mind and that her husband felt the need to tell her instead. The doctors did not give
hopes, the situation was serious enough to consider unnecessary chemotherapy.
People sometimes without realizing it, she talked about the past "was so good "..." he was so young."
The husband did not give up.
On the bedside table saw books on cancer treatments, natural medicine textbooks, stacks of printouts from the internet and figured that this man was leading the fight alone.
I tried to imagine what might be going to sleep and wake up next to her, every day with the same thought in mind.
Today she is here.
's still alive.
But until when?

Today I saw it.
sitting in front of me. He tells me of the holiday
that they booked.
Del child age 6 years a few days ago.
of his last half-pay for all the days of illness.
tell her something about me, what has happened in my life the last time when we have not seen very often.
I listen.
Ride.
I'll come back to mind old stories of journeys made with love ... ... and it tells me with eyes full of light on the finer things in life.
And I feel my heart explode with joy that you are here.
front of me.
I confess that it is planning to stop working.
has yet to decide.
would not give up, would not want to become a full-time homemaker, but tire easily and wants to devote all the energy that the people he loves.
I say that I think is the best solution - after what you've been ...- and remains suspended in mid-sentence in the room.
She nods and starts to tell a girl he met in hospital.
"You do not have it done you know I went to the hospital to find her and I realized it was the end ..."

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