The Road I Travel – Wayne Wilson

 

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Wayne Wilson’s Presentation at First Baptist Church Regina – March 10, 2013

It was one year this coming Friday that I went to the emergency at the General Hospital with what I thought was a bad chest cold. When I went into the emergency area I was very surprised to see that there were no other people in the area, no other patients being treated. It was 6 o’clock in the morning.

I was immediately taken to an examination room where I was met by five nurses and a doctor. fbc_folksfirst_WWilson_x2Within the first two hours they started what was to be two blood transfusions, intravenous, and a chest X-ray.

A few minutes after the chest X-ray was taken, another doctor and three resident doctors returned. They showed me the chest X-ray, which might as well have been a map of downtown Beirut, because I had no idea what I was looking at.

He said that he had some very bad news — that the X-ray showed that I had advanced lung cancer.

During the next few minutes he asked me if I had any prior warning? No.
Did I have all my affairs in order? No.
Did I have a living will? I didn’t even know what that was.

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