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[Terrible Texan]

A friend of mine who was a c6/c7 quad. from diving in shallow water, passed away. He was taking lots of pain pills which made his liver fail. He was injured a few months after me in 98'.

[Edinburgh Colin]

I'm sorry to hear that Text you must be hurting pretty bad about now. I guess, maybe, you can be thank full he's not in that kind of pain any more.
EC

[Terrible Texan]

yeah,like everbody says, he's in a better place

[allister]

Hey Alan,
Sorry for you loss man.
Lost two good friends myself this year.
Still trying to find out if this is true or not......
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going", but like yourself , I keep roll on.
Al

[wheeliebear75]

I'm sorry to hear you've lost a friend.....it's never easy to say good-bye & the closer to us they were the more we feel their absence. You gave him the gift of your friendship...THE ULTIMATE gift...a gift with no strings or price-tags!

[kiwiquad]

Sorry for your loss TT....

[pinkcloud]

Terrible Texan, on 25 July 2011 - 12:19 AM, said:

A friend of mine who was a c6/c7 quad. from diving in shallow water, passed away. He was taking lots of pain pills which made his liver fail. He was injured a few months after me in 98'.

Hi Mr TT

I am on lots of meds too, i think of them as 'buy now..pay later...' Thing is I believe when we live life in fast forward, we are on liited time.

Its like we are born with a million pounds....get spinal cord injury and are left with 50 p.

I know without medication I would possibly die from a heart attack or something, too much stress, no mobility possible and a torture existence.

When I was in the mri scanner, ripped off morphine before me operation I had an image...the pain that jesus had when he was being repeatingly hit by those metal balls with spikes on them..i saw in the film the passion of christ (I was not even with faith when i watched that film..the drama involved in that film so prounounced it stuck in me mind) i then thought of me and me children having fun at the seaside and I passed out..this is the pain I was in ever since the surgery until I took medications.

Life may be shorter on meds, but its quality not quantity.

If he was to have lived thorough this unable to take any pain medications, life I guesss would have been horrific.

I believe that now he is free from suffering, pain, fear...a release from agony. Whe we reach that stage, I personally and others i have spoken with, willed to leave this life tied of the agony.

I have said this here before on here...they say love is free. its not, the pain involved when it is lost is so high it feels unbearable. Its the risk we take when we fully open our hearts to love.

He wont want you to be sad, I'm sure..well thats a near impossibility..yet even death can not take away our memories and good times we have. These are what will keep him alive forever and how i m sure he will wish to be remembered..not letting the horror of sci dominate memories.

These are not words of comfort, the only words we want to hear is that this has not really happened. Simply an understanding.

A hug I send to you and all his loved ones however...is of comfort.

[isobar]

Hope you 'll be okay loosing friends are hard and may he rest in peace.