Letting the Cat “Out of the Bag” and Revealing and Sharing Some FACTS, IMPORTANT and Very INTERESTING Surprises About Me!
The Moment of TRUTH
Well it is “OFFICIAL” now, I’m Terminally Ill and have been diagnosed with this LUKEMIA and “unbeknownst” to me I had this type of CANCER and its symptons for about 5 years now since 2017. The oncologist told me that: “Most people with this illness usually last about 5 years and no more than that, whether they get some TREATMENT or not! No wonder for 5 years I have felt ALL of the following symptons of the disease and was oblivious of what it was:
What has come as a REAL “shock” to me is that I have never expected to have Cancer and go so soon! So I have just about 3 more months to live! For many patients with terminal diseases, this awareness precipitates a personal crisis. Researchers have given it other names: the crisis of knowledge of death; an existential turning point, or existential plight; ego chill. It usually happens as it did with me, close to when doctors break the news. Doctors focus on events in the body: You have an incurable disease; your heart has weakened; your lungs are giving out etc. But the immediate effect is psychological.
The roots of this trauma may be, in part, cultural. Most people recognize at an intellectual level that death is inevitable, says Virginia Lee, a nurse who works with cancer patients. But “at least in Western culture, we think we’re going to live forever.” Many of Lee’s advanced-cancer patients tell her they had thought of death as something that happened to other people—until they received their diagnosis. “I’ve heard from cancer patients that your life changes instantly, the moment the doctor or the oncologist says it’s confirmed that it is cancer,” she says. In this crisis, some people feel depression or despair or anger, or all three. They are SAD and grieve. They grapple with a loss of meaning. A person’s whole belief system may be called into question because “virtually every aspect of their life will be threatened by changes imposed by the [disease] and its all about how they are coping and management,”
Coping with Terminal Cancer
There was a recent study taken about terminally ill Cancer diagnosed patients. Newly diagnosed cancer patients who had a prognosis of at least three months were interviewed at several different points. At first, for almost all the patients in the study, existential concerns were more important than dealing with the painful and physical impacts of disease. The researchers found that the reckoning was jarring, but still relatively brief and uncomplicated, lasting usually about two to three months. For a few patients though, the crisis triggered or created lasting psychological problems. A few others seemed to face the crisis, then return to a state of denial, and then double back to the crisis—perhaps more than once. These patients are more likely to have a deeper compassion for others and a greater appreciation for the life that remains. Well I guess in my own particular case, I have accepted this “VERDICT” very well and I feel that DEATH is not such a BAD thing afterall. Because I know that right after I “fall asleep” the NEXT event will be the RESURRECTION and beholding my Savior “FACE TO FACE” (See 1 Cor. 13:12), so it’s truly a WONDERFUL thing! Notice what the patriarch Job wrote about this TRUTH: “If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time (of death) will I wait, till my change come.” Job 14:14. So there is a GREAT and BIG change coming for me! Notice: “For this corruptible (body) must put on incorruption, and this mortal (human being) must put on immortality. So when this corruptible (body) shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal (human being) shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, DEATH is swallowed up in VICTORY. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 1 Corinthians 15:53-55. And the Psalmist also wrote: “As for me, I will behold thy face (LORD) in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” Psalm 17:15. Notice also: "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (the grave); neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption (nor decay).” Psalm 16:10. You see the Psalmis also wrote this comforting thought: “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.” Psalm116:15.
Being a man of God though it actually came to me as a “BIG SURPRISE” that I’m dying! I knew that God was working on slowly but surely making me very aware of my “timely” upcoming DEMISE somehow. I just didn’t know exactly how it was going to happen, I often had asked Him in prayer that it would be very NICE and GREAT if He could just make it be while I was sleeping, instead of being fully “concious” and ALERT when it would happen! One of my most favorite motto and quote is “HONESTY is ALWAYS the BEST policy” so in ALL honesty I must say that this is just GREAT! Think about it, I don’t have to worry about being hit by a car on the street, or being killed by the Jesuits or the Freemasons, or a Nuclear War, the coming BEAST power and the Antichrist system persecuting me cause I will be GONE by then! I think that God really has allowed this as a sort of way to confirm His promise to me and many other servants like me perhaps that: “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation (the GREAT Tribulation), which shall come upon ALL the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.” Revelation 3:10.
So I guess it’s God’s loving way to do this by “putting me to SLEEP” just as you would do to a very close, dear and loving pet that is in such AGONY and painful situation like I had to do with my SWEET, and dear kitty “GRISKA” who ironically died of Feline Leukemia and though it was rather “heart-breaking” for me to have to LET GO of her and see her die I came to the realization that it was truly forthe better and the best thing I could do for her. At least I have the consolation that she died in my arms and I was able to bury her in my Pajama top.
My Immediate Plans
I have decided that I’m just going to let the Cancer run its own course without any treatment whatsoever, NO “CHEMO”, no “radiation” therapy, etc. I’ll just continue using IBUPROFEN for the PAIN! Which is usually and typically at night while I sleep and has been for the past five years now. My wife will be going on a long trip to Canada to visit her son there so GUESS WHAT? I’m going to have a REAL GREAT “Feast” and “Party” ALL ALONE in my Patio EVERY DAY just listening to ALL my 92 CDs, having lots of booze like Cuba Libres, Margaritas, Beer, Wine, Rum, Whiskey, and a nice Martini “slightly stirred not shaken” like James Bond. The idea is not to get drunk nor intoxicated but just to have A BALL! And lots of FUN remembering the “GOOD OLD” Disco days of my youth and I’ll just have a “CONTINUAL FEAST” in my patio for two months!
Just like is written in the book of Proverbs: “All the days of the afflicted are EVIL: but he that is of a merry heart (like me) hath a continual feast.” Proverbs 15:15. I’m going to be walking ALL OVER THE HOUSE with shoes on ALL THE TIME! Whether my wife likes that or not, she won’t be present to see me anyway, I’m NOT Japanese nor into Feng Chui like her. I haven’t told her the “GOOD NEWS” of my upcoming passing away yet so hopefully it will be a “SURPRISE” when she returns! I’m going to order lots of PIZZA! Dominoes, Papa Johns, Little Ceasar’s, Pizza Hut you name it, I’ll have it as my LAST meal! And also I'll have a nice Beef "BARBECUE" as well! And lots of LOVE would be NICE too don’t you think? Just like I sing in a nice “remake” of LOU BEGA’s “MAMBO No. 5” I have recorded today which says: “A little bit of LORI in my life, a little bit of PAMELA by my side, a little bit of ALINA in the night, a little bit of HELEN ALL THE TIME!” You can get your hands on this nice version I did which I’ve called: “MAMBO No.5 (SPECIAL G VERSION)” on my upcoming Mp3 Album which I’ll be launching in March titled: “Oh What A Thrill to be Terminally Ill!” see the cover below:
How would I like to be Remembered When I’m Gone!
As a very GIFTED and TALENTED individual with a tremendous love and ardent PASSION for God’s Word and His TRUTH! A man full of LOVE, COMPASSION, KINDNESS, AFFECTION, WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING! Helpful, HONEST, SINCERE, “UNIQUE”, very knowledgeable, loving, SWEET, tender, TOUGH, “FEARLESS”, DRIVEN, a GREAT Artist, SONGWRITER, Music Producer and Composer. A very “thought-provoking” writer and blogger and a TRUE and very GENUINE “ANIMAL LOVER” who loved and adored CATS! Also as a GREAT singer and CROONER as well! Proverbs 10:7 reads: “The memory of the JUST is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.” I know that probably when I’m GONE, ALL my books will become BESTSELLERS and ALL my Artwork will be sold like “Hot Cakes” that’s if my wife doesn’t get rid of them and throws it in the garbage dump.
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My Last Will and Testament
Below I have provided the reader with a copy of my Last Will and Testament for important knowledge regarding my posterity:
Last Will and Testament of Ernesto J. Giro
This document should be upheld and recognized in any court of law as a very “binding” and legal document of the deceased: Ernesto J. Giro’s last FINAL words, thoughtful desires, INSTRUCTIONS and WILL regarding his demise and eventual DEATH.
I Ernesto J. Giro do hereby DECLARE this to be my LAST and FINAL WILL concerning my DEATH and BURIAL and other pertinent handling of my ASSETS, and personal possessions, etc. in regards to my DESIRE and requests on how matters should be handled after my passing.
1. I want to be BURIED and NOT CREMATED!
2. I want to be buried and be shown at my funeral inside a closed and sealed casket with a window so you can just see my face!
3. I want to be placed NAKED inside the casket (NO CLOTHING)! For “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither” (Job 1:21)
4. I want the Funeral Home to play ALL of any available music CDs of my songs ALL the time during my viewing.
5. I want my only begotten son NESTOR ANDRES GIRO to be the heir of ALL of my earthly possessions: my clothing, jewelry, shoes, books, liquor, etc. and of ALL my devices (PC, Cell Phone, etc.). Also any royalties from my music and any earnings from book sales to be given to HIM ONLY!
6. I want GEORGINA HURTADO PAEZ to take possession of my kitty: “Agatha” and take care of her for me throughout the remainder of her life!
7. I want to have written on my Tombstone the following: “Here lies a SINCERE and HONEST Man of God”
Furthermore it is my desire and WILL that my family relatives and kin: my mother, my siblings, etc. take care of ALL of the funeral and burial expenses and NOT Georgina Hurtado Paez.
I do hereby attest that at the time I wrote and composed this “LAST WILL” and TESTAMENT, I was completely lucid, alert and guided by ONLY my Father in Heaven GOD ALMIGHTY! There has been no other influential 3rd party indivuals to direct me or guide me in writing this document.
Sincerely
Ernesto J. Giro
Final Thoughts and Desires
It would be nice if I could spend my final days in my sister’s Jacksonville Condo by the beach but that’s just “Wishful Thinking” on my part! I would love to see my Son Andy before I go also, I haven’t seen him in ages! I would love to see also my natal island of Cuba before I die! And walk by the street were I grew up there. One FINAL thought: "For I Know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall (come soon and) stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me." Job 19:25-27.