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but I'll take the chance and take the heat.
Most of you know that Pat Marr's wife has terminal cancer. He posted it here. He and I have continued to email as I've been through it and we help each other. She's been admitted into Hospice and not expected to live very long. I just want to ask for prayers or good thoughts for Pat and his wife.



John, how could anybody ever be mad at you? You are a very caring and compassionate human being who looks out for the needs of people around him. The time you spent taking care of your wife, and then your dog is a testimony to the kind of person you are.

Furthermore, your decision to donate the proceeds of your music to benefit animal shelters is another indication of the goodness that you spread so willingly as you pass through this world.

I have to admit, I wasn't planning to make an announcement, but since one has been made, I will finish the story.

My beautiful wife and best friend died today (August 8th, 2012 at noon) in a hospice palliative care facility here in Winston Salem. Although there was great potential for pain due to metastases to the bone, the hospice team is very good at alleviating the symptoms that make patients and their families uncomfortable. For the past several days she has slept peaceably like a little baby. Then, this morning there came an exhale that was never followed by an inhale, and she very quietly escaped the confines of her mortal body.

Ever since her diagnosis about this time last year, she has been an example of the way faith can work in the attitude of one who experiences suffering. I met her in high school, so she had 42 years to teach me how to love and how to trust in God, walking by faith and not by sight. I can only hope her lessons sunk in. We'll see.

Thanks to everybody who responded to John's announcement with expressions of prayer or other kindness. It would probably be appropriate to respond individually to each person, but I have to leave now to fill out paperwork at the funeral home, after which I probably won't feel like posting to the forum.

If a collective THANK YOU can be OK, please accept mine.

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