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most dying patients. “He accepted his illness from the very beginning but he still fought,” she added. “He never asked 'Why me?.”
And after John’s death, Jane fought on alone, supported by his memory. Exhausted physically and emotionally, she suffered a nervous breakdown. The drain on her personal resources bought her to her knees but she struggled back, taking a year off from her job to return to school and restore her depleted reserves.
She recalled that a friend of her husbands had a colostomy and was having difficulty adjusting to the operation. John, although gravely ill himself, went to see the new patient, hoping that talking about their common problems would help. His understanding made it easier for the friend to confront the special problems shared by all colostomy patients, according to Jane. She volunteered that she too is willing to help any family facing the same situation. Maybe, she added later, if she had found a friendly ear in someone who really knew, who really understood what she was going through, her breakdown could have been avoided.
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