NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR

Recently, I was sitting in the lobby at UCSF, Mount Zion, watching folks come and go. I struck up a conversation with the man sitting beside me. His wife was into her third round of "Chemo." I was impressed with his knowledge and acceptance. His perspective was not the same as mine, but then again, it didn't have to be. Where mine is often philosophical, his is very personal. My intuition tells me that he is in the "grief" process. There's a grief pendulum swing in my belief with cancer patients and families which is mainly loss of what they had. I think I saw it in my new friend. He's "stepping up to the plate" but it's not what he signed up for. God bless him.