Here’s another final reflection heard by Professor Tony Komaroff (M.D.), Professor at Harvard Medical School.
A 65 man, with end stage lung cancer, leaving the hospital to spend his last days at home. We pushed him in a wheelchair to the front door of the hospital where his family was waiting in the car, their faces lined with pain. As they opened the car door, the family dachshund bolted out of the car and jumped into the man’s lap, tail wagging furiously. The man turned to me and said: “Reminds me of that prayer. ‘Lord, help me to become the man…my dog thinks I am.’”