Yesterday my wife was taken to the Intensive Care Unit at our local hospital. She is there now. She fell and hit her head yesterday.
I have not been told a diagnosis and there have been many possibilities suggested at the hospital, including a stroke.
How quickly things change. So quickly. One reason I want to write this quick post is because of the time of year. Christmas is approaching. Yesterday reminded me of the reason that Jacob Marley's ghost told Scrooge that he appeared to Scrooge at the beginning of "A Christmas Carol" by Mr. Charles Dickens.
Marley told Scrooge that he "procured" his appearance to Scrooge so that Scrooge would have an opportunity to avoid Marley's own fate. The moral was that if people's actions are changed, so are the results at the end of our lives.
I have been given a chance to reflect on where I am going. You have a chance to reflect on where you are going, too. The reality is that we can and do make that choice every day of our lives.
As I wrote above, my wife is in the ICU and I do not yet have a diagnosis for her condition. I am on my way to the ICU now.
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