Mortality

I've learned to equate "clinical trials" of medications on people with illness as a terminal event, one step closer to death. It's just the places I've hung around, people I've worked with and things I've seen, but the the two -- Clinical trials & terminal -- just seem to go hand in hand.

One of my friends from way back when I was too smart for my own good, just told me she's in a "clinical trial". I felt sick...for her, and her family. She's so upbeat, so positive, so able to move through the day with a huge smile on her face. That same smile way back when, won her awards. Now they hide the sad fact that disease is ravaging her body.

I'll pray, I'll hope, I'll stay positive for her when we speak. But I've become acquainted again with mortality.