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By Joyce Dunn<\/strong>
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\nEntering MD Anderson for each chemo treatment was tough, I put on a turban, since I had no hair, put on my Aussie hat and a Mexican serape or some other type of cape, which in no way resembled a halo and angel wings!
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\nChemo treatments at MDA are 24\/7 and you can be scheduled even at midnight. The halls there are very long, wide, and periodically open up into waiting areas where patients and family sit waiting for treatment or waiting while a loved one has treatment.\u00a0 My second treatment was late in the evening. Very few people were in the halls and my husband and I were walking down one of them when I saw a man sitting in one of the chairs closest to the hall look our direction, he smiled, stood up and kept looking our direction. I distinctly remember him being about 5\u20198\u201d wearing khaki pants, a blue shirt and black rimmed glasses.\u00a0 Other people got up to see what he was looking at, some stayed looking and smiling, others turned away and sat back down.\u00a0 I looked behind me to see what he was looking at, there was no one there.\u00a0 I looked down to make sure I was buttoned and zipped! I was, and then checked to make sure my husband was also buttoned and zipped. He was.
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\nI realized the man was making eye contact and smiling at me, so I simply nodded and smiled back.\u00a0 After we passed him, I looked back; he had sat down with a very peaceful smile and look of contentment on his face.\u00a0 Another couple was sitting against the wall, both smiling, and I heard her say, \u201ceverything will be alright, that was an angel\u201d. I looked around again and saw nothing. My thought was, they sure must have seen something I didn\u2019t!\u00a0 I had no idea they meant me.
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\nThis happened to me many times.\u00a0 I always tried to put on a \u201chappy face\u201d and would smile, nod, speak or sometimes just touch someone on the shoulder as I went by because I could see them looking at me expecting some sort of acknowledgement from me.\u00a0 I simply did it out of kindness and compassion because I knew what they were going through and I wanted to offer encouragement.\u00a0 I could always tell when looking at a couple or group which one was the patient and which were not.\u00a0 Most, if not all patients, had a dead look in their eyes, no sparkle.\u00a0 Sometimes I would see a sparkle come back in someone\u2019s eyes after I spoke with them, or just nodded and smiled.\u00a0 Some people\u2019s face would literally light up when they saw me \u2013 total strangers they were
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\nThese are some of the sentences I would hear as I passed by or right after passing them, and having nodded, smiled or spoken to them, not realizing they meant me. However, there were times I was mystified and bewildered when I was pretty sure they were talking of me mainly because I was the only one in their vicinity \u2013 there was never anyone around or behind me. I would think, \u201cSurely, they don\u2019t mean me\u201d but would throw it off and move on.
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\n\u201cThat was an angel\u201d
\n\u201cI felt the brush of the angel\u2019s wings\u201d
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been touched by an angel\u201d
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to be ok, we\u2019ve seen the angel\u201d
\n\u201cI felt the touch of the angel\u2019s robe as she went by\u201d
\n\u201cDid you see that? It was an angel\u201d.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been blessed by an angel\u201d
\n\u201cDid you feel the flutter of the angel\u2019s wings?\u201d
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\nWhen I had conversations with people, I always spoke of my faith, that He was there, and I would get through this.\u00a0 After the treatments, when I was down there for follow-up appointments, I would visit my son\u2019s chiropractor.\u00a0 The first time, while waiting my turn, I was visiting with a lady in the waiting room who noticed my turban and hat and was asking questions of me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember all I said, but I know we talked about God, Jesus and faith and she said, \u201cYou must be an angel\u201d.\u00a0 I said no to that and told her several times I was not an angel. She wanted questions answered I could not answer.\u00a0 She was almost badgering me.\u00a0 I was called in for my treatment, and then went to my son\u2019s house where I stayed while in Houston.\u00a0 About an hour later, my son called from his office \u2013 the chiropractor had called him to find out if I wanted to talk to the lady I had talked to in the waiting room. She had asked him for my number which ethically he could not give out. She kept after him for the number, crying, getting frantic about her \u201cneed\u201d to talk to me and ultimately caused a ruckus in his office insisting I was an angel and that he had no right to keep her from me. He was to the point of having security remove her from the building but didn\u2019t really want to do that to her.\u00a0\u00a0 I did allow my son to tell the doctor I would talk to her.\u00a0 I tried telling her I was no angel, but she wouldn\u2019t listen.\u00a0 She was adamantly forceful in trying to get me to tell her I was an angel and that I could tell her things about herself, and possibly her future.\u00a0 By the time the conversation came to a close, I could tell she was angry with me for not acceding to her wishes.
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\nThis type of incident happened two more times with two more different women in the same chiropractor\u2019s office.\u00a0 The second time, that woman was\u00a0 almost as adamant as the first one about me being an angel but she was more amenable to the doctor and\u00a0 to my telling her I was not an angel, that I was simply relying on my belief in God and my faith to get through the chemo.\u00a0 The third time I saw it happening in his office was with a German woman who was calling me an angel in the same context as the others did.
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\nSo, what did these people see in me?\u00a0 Was there a countenance about me? Did they perceive something about me of which I was unaware? Evidently.\u00a0 As I said earlier, an Aussie hat and Mexican serape certainly doesn\u2019t look like a halo and angel wings!\u00a0 Neither do blue or red capes and hats.\u00a0 My face was fatter, no wrinkles, peaches and cream complexion and blue eyes with a sparkle.\u00a0 Was that perceived as cherubic? Was<\/em> I perceived as an angel? I don\u2019t know. I seemed to have brought a sense of peace and hope to some people.\u00a0 Did God give that sense of peace and hope through me?\u00a0 In thinking back on that, my thoughts are \u201cDid I do right\u201d? Did I do what was expected of me? Did I fail Him?\u00a0 Then I would realize it wasn\u2019t for me to know.\u00a0 I am assuming if He uses us for His purposes, it is not for us to know.
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\nOr, did some of them perceive an angel watching over me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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