|
|
|
I am REALLY looking forward to bed tonight.
I have an anecdote for you tonight. It concerns someone called Padre Pio.
I was at a client site this morning working with their network guy. He related how his sister seems to have been fighting cancer for many years. First she had melanoma and was pronounced “cured”. Several years later she developed two tumors. One in each lung. They removed the tumors and the cancer again seems to have been vanquished. Then they found a tumor in her chest that was threatening her heart. She went on chemotherapy.
Apparently, she reacted harder than I do with her chemo. My contact said that she said when she had the chemo she didn’t know day from night. Although she lives in Greenville, SC, she frequently comes to South Jersey with her family to visit her parent and siblings.
On one of those trips, my contact took her to the local Padre Pio shrine. I guess it took some coxing. He had her touch the statue and pray.
Later, when she returned to SC, she was home, when she heard a knock on the door. It was the priest that had come to visit her. She invited him in and made some tea or coffee. After a while, he left.
When her husband came home, he could tell that someone had been there as there were used cups still on the table. His wife, still suffering from the chemo had gone back to bed. Somewhat later, I don’t know whether it was hours or days later, she saw something about Padre Pio. When she saw the picture, she told her husband that was the priest that visited me.
Weird, I know.
On her last CT Scan, they could not find a trace of the tumor that was clearly visible in the previous scan.
My friend told me, “I don’t know if you’re religious or not. But just go to the shrine and touch the statue.”
Posted by The Vorlon at April 14, 2006 8:49 PM