It was his 2nd day of chemo and you could see the nausea slowly
building behind his eyes, and yet his spirits were good. As we talked, a wave of dark memories washed
over me as I remembered my first few months in the hospital with my broken back,
and the horrible pain and accompanying nausea.
Those days were wrapped around morphine shots until one night, alone and
sobbing, I had a silent visitor teach me, surrendering to the pain and relaxing
was better than a morphine shot. The last
line of Toni Morrison’s, Song of Solomon is, “If you surrender to the air, you
can ride it.” Surrendering isn’t about
giving up, it’s all about shifting to a place from which you can grow.
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