The Washington Times tells the story of a senior priest in the Diocese of Washington:
Canon Michael Marrett, a hospital chaplain and pillar of strength for years at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Northwest, suffered a reversal of fortune last summer when he had a stroke and became a patient at the very hospital in which he worked.
“Before [my stroke], I could leave it here,” he said. “Now, I’m more concerned about the work that is done in the hospital. I take more time [with patients], I listen more, and I’m concerned – really concerned – about their well-being.”
The hospital staff, he said, “told me not by words but by actions that I was a person of worth and I should not give up. There was still work for me to do.”