Time things for cancers and strokes. It things to bureaucrats,too. And it mattered for one patient I had who wanted to hand down a gift to his family before he diedHe had been a fit, young man when what he thought was a case of food intolerance turned out to be an aggressive cancer. His surgeon performed a meticulous (extremely careful about details) operation but cautioned him that it might still not prove enough. It wasn’t long before he and I teamed up to care for what would prove to be a terminal illness. He was a skilled and self-taught craftsman. An acrimonious divorce had split the family and he decided to build a table for his young daughter. For the timber, or he chose oak. “Unlike me,it will age gracefully.” He pictured her colouring at the table, later studying at it and one day, and gathering her own children around it. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com