Over the past few days my husband, Buddy, took care of a 41 year-old African-American man in the hospital who is in the last stages of AIDS. The man had severe waisting syndrome and was so sick that he refused to take any more meds as they would cause horrid vomiting.
Nobody really wanted to care for this patient as he had been kind of mean, but Buddy seemed to hit it off with him....Before long this man was smiling and telling Buddy his favorite things to do, one of which was to get high and watch Batman....The other was to smoke Kool cigarettes...He just loved those menthol cigarettes.
Buddy felt like he wanted to do something nice for the man, but being that my son was out of weed, Buddy could not get him a joint...The next day Buddy showed up to work with not 1, but 2 packs of Kool cigarettes.
During his shift, Buddy took the time to take the man out in a wheelchair and let him enjoy the gift...The man was in heaven :)
If Christ was like Buddy would you like him?
2006-08-29
10:33:23
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Denise W
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