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Angel Experience

by Bob "Doggie" Henderson

      

  My experience came in 1998 after my bypass surgery. 

 

  I was sent home 5 days after the surgery and in 3 days I noticed seepage through the bandages. I called the surgeon's office and they said that was normal and to keep an eye on it.  On Sunday, I was going through 4x4 bandages like a baby with diarrhea. Monday I called my heart doctor and he said to come in right away. We got there about 4:30 p.m. and he came into the room and the first words he said, "You look like crap,” and I told him that was the way I felt. 

 

  He determined that I had infection and I was going to have to go back into the hospital. I asked what time in the morning did he want me there. He said not in the morning, there would be a bed waiting for me at Lutheran hospital as soon as Myrna could get me there. I spent 42 days in the hospital and had 4 surgeries over that span. 

 

  Now when did I have an encounter with an angel? I think it was after the 3rd one they had me pretty heavily sedated as they had my chest wide open so they tell me. I woke up it must have been about 3 a.m. when the brightest light I had ever seen lit up my room and a figure was standing in the doorway saying "Don’t be afraid, Bob. Everything is going to be okay." The room darkened and I went back to sleep. That was my real life encounter with an angel.

 

Bob "Doggie" Henderson '53

Pierceton, IN

                 

                 

Values

Submitted by Gurtha Cabbage

 

To realize the value of a sister,
Ask  someone who doesn't have one.

To realize the value of ten years,
Ask a newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of four years,
Ask a graduate.

To realize the value of one year,
Ask a student who Has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of nine months,
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize the value of one month,
Ask a mother who has given birth to A premature baby.

To realize the value of one week,

Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one minute,
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one-second,
Ask a person who has survived an accident.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.

You will treasure it even more

When you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend or family member,
LOSE ONE.

Remember . . . hold on tight to the ones you love!

           

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