For Wilshire Baptist Church
I wasn’t expecting an emotional collision with the deaths of Jerry Jeff Walker and Roy Faulhaber just a few days apart, but that’s what happened to me back in October. I wrote about it then but then I set it aside because sometimes it’s good to let thoughts sit for a while. I’ve done that, and now here it is:
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It’s the strangest sensation to poke around on Facebook and click through a string of friends of friends of friends and suddenly peek into the lives of people you once were close to but you haven’t seen in decades and haven’t even thought about.
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“Hmm . . . that’s interesting.”
“What’s that?”
“Your pulse skips a beat.”
I was sitting in the Carter BloodCare mobile unit at Wilshire a couple of weeks ago, going through blood donor prescreening, when everything came to a halt. The young woman checking my pulse let go of my wrist and called her supervisor over. He checked it too and concurred: “Your pulse skips a beat about every 30 seconds.” After asking me some questions about my health and conferring with an on-call doctor on the telephone, they let me give a pint of blood.
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