By ERIC HANSON
Texas Medical Center News
Virgil Fry has spent most of his adult life as a chaplain serving patients and their families at the institutions of the Texas Medical Center. As the executive director of Lifeline Chaplaincy, he has seen thousands of very sick people during his career but one patient remains freshly firm in his memory. "There was a man at M.D. Anderson who had a series of facial surgeries and by the time I met him most of his face had been removed," Fry remembered. "When you looked at him, you were looking at a gaping orifice." Fry said the man had a prosthesis mask but could talk better without it and asked him if he could take the mask off while they chatted. "We had the most incredible visit after he took that mask off. He began to talk about what he had been through," Fry said. "He had a very tender heart. He said he had spent a lot of time wrestling with God and there were times when he wanted to end his own life but he didn't." Fry said the patient then began asking about him, his family, and how he came to be a chaplain.
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