Jan 04 2009
Acute Pain
Sometimes pain isn’t chronic at all, sometimes pain comes on all at once and throws you into a tailspin that is way too quick for someone to realise what is happening.
Tonight I’ve just came home from the hospital. My best friend lost his brother, and there wasn’t a thing I could do to help ease that pain. It was the most helpless and worthless as I’ve felt since the last time I was in a hospital waiting room hearing the same words “He had a widowmaker”. The exact cause of death of my best friends brother was the same cause that I witnessed my dad have that he barely lived through. I was immediately seeing all that over again, and I knew I was just as helpless in being there for the best friend as I was in the hospital that day.
How do you mend a broken heart? How can you remove the guilt that you are seeing your best friend have, even though it is clearly not his fault? How can you help in a time like that? I still don’t know, and I cry thinking of everything he’s going through and I can’t do a thing about it but question why.
It is really hard when seeing a friend go through something terrible. Make sure you let the friend that you are there for him for support at the very least. Sometimes this is enough. We really never know the reason why things happen the way they do. I believe that we are all given the experiences we need at the moment we need them. My condolences to your friend.
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