All the suckage seems insignificant now

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

(x-posted to personal journal)

Background: I'm a Call Center tech for large cable company

Customer calls in, says he can't see the webpage sign in. He asks me to hold on for a second while he says goodbye to someone. He apologized and said it was his oxygen delivery guy. He has terminal cancer, and he was apologizing for it.

So I'm working on his problem, and did a remote connect, and it was really minor, just needing a small setting change. But while we're doing the remote we're talking, and I can hear him laughing during our talk. Here is this guy who is taking massive amounts of morphine just to stop from being in pain, and he's laughing. And I can help but laugh with him.

I swear, I'm bouncing off the walls right now, I'm so happy. This was the best call I've ever taken.

Walter, you are certainly a better man than I am, and our world will be a sadder place when you are gone. May the Lord and Lady make your passage much easier upon you.

Attack Gypsy

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Lovely post. God bless you, Walter.

[nem0.livejournal.com]

This post brightened my day. The world needs more people like Walter.

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

This post contains massive quantities of WIN.

[ohmyhead.livejournal.com]

A nice change. Thanks for sharing.

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

this has just salvaged my day :)

[pisceandreamer.livejournal.com]

Wish the world had more Walters and that they could stay around longer.

[jjjiii]

I'd laugh more if they gave me morphine and oxygen, too.

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

No, you could hear that the man was in pain. That much I could tell. But he was determined to go out on his terms. If the cancer was going to kill him, he was going to go laughing.

[tysolna]

I knew someone like that. She'd like Walter.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

*sniff*
*cough*

Sorry, seemed to get some ... dust in my eye there. Just a little sentiment.

God bless you, Walter.

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful spirit he has. Thanks for the uplift.

[ayelmar.livejournal.com]

Here's to Walter.
He's not going "gentle into that good night..."
...but he's going laughing, not raging.
That's the way to go out, if you have the chance.