I really had no idea two weeks ago why I finally picked up the phone and made that appointment to come to the Spa, but God did and as I asked how you were and you shared about your mom, I knew. I never had the pleasure of meeting her, but I truly believe you are an angel to the medical world and my sense your mom was a very big influence in who you are and I have seen and experienced your true compassion and love for your family and patients. May you find that inner strength to carry you in the days ahead. I have been the caregiver, not unlike you, and too often we feel we can not have permission to grieve, to have periods of sadness and questions, but as I have told by many of my Spiritual Teachers along my journey that it is so hard to let them go, but thank God he has given us "memories", just image what loosing a love one would be like if at that moment of their last breath here, everything is wiped clean from our memory banks. I truly believe that there is life on the other side of that thin vale between this world and the next, and there is no more pain or suffering. May knowing so many love and care for you and your family be a true testimony that you have followed your true calling and you and Andrew are true blessings. I send you a big hug and pray you will find the inner peace that Rick had at the time of his mom's passing. "Come look Cathy, see that star, as we looked up in the evening sky, "that's mom and she is stopping for a rest since she was so tired of being sick, but she is on her way to heaven," and I know she will soon will be there and she will be one of my angels watching over me," May that be a message to all of us, and it comes from the mouth of a child. Take time to care for you, you are precious in His sight.
