Our first big visit was to the Police Hospital and involved a Police General we knew who had cancer. One of his nephews was a friend of ours and he rang to ask would we go in. I went in with other volunteers; Nina, Michael, and one of my best friends, Maria. It wasn’t an easy visit to make since the General’s entire family were gathered in the room and most of them were clearly in a distressed state. I had to stifle a gasp when I saw the patient in his bed; he was just a skeleton after losing 80lbs. He had been diagnosed with cancer a few years before and, up to that point, had put up a brave fight. Now, however, he was slowly dying, but neither he nor his relatives had acknowledged it aloud. The room was full of tension and tears and I sensed what was needed was words. He hadn’t lived an overly good life and had been trying to make amends for this during the last year. In fact he was reputed to have been quite a brutal man in his job, and owned up to years of torturing prisoners in order to extract confessions.
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