Reply #16: To send her home one day after surgery, with a dire prognosis, is unconscionable.

[Straight Shooter]

If they had given up on her, why not just prescribe her pills and send her home, to let her go to sleep gently, in her own bed, with you holding her in your arms as you lay beside her, and pass on that way, instead of the torment she went through.

Many will disagree with me, that modern medicine should do "all it can," but if modern medicine only goes half-way and leaves a person to suffer horribly for the rest of the way, that isn't fair. It's cruel beyond measure.

King Crimson, I know your heart is burning with rage, as well it should be. I am asking you, please, find a way to channel it so that it does not live within you and take on a parasitic life of its own and damage your health, too. Plant a tree for the love of your life and nurture it. Start seedlings of your wife's favorite perennial flowers, nurture them, plant them when they are ready. As the years pass, they will be a living memorial to the love you shared with her.

It sounds like a silly thing to do now, but please trust me on this, in time, it will help your heart to heal.

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