every now and then we hang around greatness. That adjective can be used loosely at best. Not this time. I have a friend not a best friend but friend none the less. He works hard and has a plan. He looks for love and more times than not finds friends. He always has a place to go, always invited by someone to do something. He helps anyone who needs it without any reservation. I my self have been stranded on a Friday night , one call to him and 30 minutes later he is there, He does not have a pet but you will find a cute Chiwawa hanging out at his place when his owner is off at school. I have never and I mean never heard him say a coarse word. Boy could he, you see my friend has Crohn's and for all who do not know Crohn's is a long-term inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal (GI) system. He has been in an out of the hospital because of this, His diet has changed( anything good makes him sick, ice makes him feel better). He was in a relationship and it ended because of this. Pain, I mean constant, piercing, intolerable pain that would make anyone give up. Not my friend, he says nothing. He demands of himself to go to work, help customers, they need him he says, he wont let them down, all the while having to endure this pain. He has been in the hospital 2 of the last 4 weeks, at least there he can get morphine and the pain for that moment of time disappears. This will be his life from now on, this is what he gets to look forward too, everyday and I mean everyday dealing with pain but hey if I did not tell you, did not point at him while we were all out and say that's my friend with Crohn's you would never know. Sit around the table with him, sit at the bar with him, go to dinner with him, watch a movie with him, take a road trip with him and experience his greatness as he will never let you know about his pain. My friend has Crohn's and he refuses to let Crohn's control his live, spend a moment with him and see what he is made of because that is as good as it gets.
Mark
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