It hurts but I’m saying goodbye to this old friend of 9 years. She has written some of the most beautiful poems and hardest surgical orders. She has written words of encouragements and certificates of deaths. She has given hope and made others cry. She has walked the pages of... 
admission notes, consent forms, operation records and she has most definitely danced intimately in my private journal. She is tired and she needs a deep rest. Farewell, my beautiful Sailor. May the waves of peace be upon you. You have served me well. I am thankful.
She’s taken the fall far too many times. Her arthritic dance and intermittent haemorrhages have been painful to see. She deserves a good rest after dancing on thousands of pages. The words she has written has changed many lives. It is time for rest. I can’t push her anymore.
