In
Memory of Carol Abramowski, RN, NP, MS
December
14, 1945--April 26, 2002
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Carol
Abramowski (left) and Winnie Star (right).
Carol Abramowski was a women's health nurse practitioner in the
Department of OB/GYN at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San
Francisco for nearly 20 years. She fought bravely after her diagnosis
of cancer and was a source of inspiration for her family, friends,
colleagues, and patients in the ways in which she coped with,
prepared for, and accepted the inevitability of her untimely death.
She will be dearly missed.
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IT WAKES
YOU UP TO LIFE
WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU DIES
MOMENTS IN SMALL ELEVATORS
IN UNION WITH PERFECT STRANGERS
BECOME
SIMPLE RAPTURE
CLIMBING
EIGHT FLIGHTS OF STAIRS
ON ANY GIVEN DAY A STRUGGLE
BECOMES EFFORTLESS
WHEN YOU THINK OF WHAT YOUR FRIEND WENT THROUGH
TO
LOSE HER LIFE
MORNING
COFFEE AT THE LOCAL LINE
TRANSFORMS INTO GESTURES
RICH WITH KNOWING
THAT YESTERDAY WAS ALL IT WAS
AND
TODAY IS ALL THERE IS
WHEN
YOUR FRIEND DIES
THE WORLD CHANGES
AND THE SIGNS WITH ARROWS
POINTING RIGHT OR LEFT
DIRECT YOU TO THE NEXT STOP
AND AS YOU LOOK TO FIND THE TRUE DIRECTION
YOU
ALREADY KNOW WHERE TO TURN
WHEN
THEY DIE, THESE FRIENDS
YOU STOP LOOKING FOR A TREND
AND THE SIMPLE MOMENT
THAT LASTS A LIFETIME IN SILENCE
WITH GLAZED FACE
CONVEYS WHAT LOVE AND LIFE REALLY MEAN
By
Winnie Star
May 10, 2002
