Michael Wilson
Saturday, January 3 2009
A couple months ago I got some comments to this blog from someone using the ‘nym “A Rock and a Hard Place”. His name was Michael Wilson, and he was fighting brain cancer, with a dire prognosis. He and I began emailing one another, and had a brief but interesting correspondence about our experiences with illness and medicine. A few weeks after he stopped emailing me, I learned that he had passed away.
I didn’t know Michael very well, but what I knew was worth remembering. His nurse gave me the news, and she has agreed to let me post some of what she wrote about Michael here on this blog. I’ve edited it only slightly.
Michael lost his battle with cancer late Friday Dec. 12.
Michael was the epitome of bravery, courage, passion and determination, love and spirit. He fought adversity and always came out smiling. No matter how tough things got he always kept us laughing and he never gave up. He was very much in love with a very special girl who could make him smile no matter how bad things got and stood by him to the very end. In doing so she has touched my heart as well and her love for Michael kept him alive despite the odds. I never believed the power of love and the Lord as much as I do now after seeing Michael and [his fiancee] cling to each other and the lord when most of us would have just thrown in the towel.
Michael has passed on to be with his family and I know when we see his smiling face again he will probably be eating Don Antonio’s and playing his guitar in a room full of shoes, soccer balls, and a ton of kids. Anyone who knew Michael knew he would do anything to help a child. Michael chose to continue to help cancer research even after passing, he donated his body to cancer research.
Although Michael was only 22 years old when he went home to be with the Lord, he lived every day to its fullest and did more in his short life than many that live to be a hundred.
