A piece of my mind. When you come into my room.

When you come into my hospital room, you need to know the facts of my life that there is information not contained in my hospital chart that I am 40 years married, with 4 children and 4 grandchildren that I am "genetically Lutheran"... with gut disease, like Luther himself that I am a professor that I teach teachers, priests, sisters how to nurture faith in the next generation that I love earthv sensuous life, beauty, travel, eating, drinking J&B scotch, the theater, opera, the Chicago Symphony, movies, all kinds, water skiing, tennis, running, walking, camping that I love loving, the wonder and awe of sexual intimacy that I enjoy gardening, smell of soil in misty rain and scorching sun that I have led a chronic illness group for 12 years