More death
I got another one of those dreaded calls from my mother yesterday, the kind where I knew she had been crying.
Less than three months after her sister passed, looks like her brother will be gone too. Both of her siblings gone in the same year. Fuck.
This isn’t exactly unexpected; his health has been poor for the last 4 years. But every time we thought it was “his time,” he hung on. He weathered a major stroke, bedsores, various infections, you name it - while we all just hoped he would go.
In the end, his organs just started shutting down. Kidneys failed on Sunday. I expect there’ll be a funeral by the weekend.
So I’m on the Virgin America redeye to JFK tonight and will stay through Sunday. When mom cries, I go.
Less than three months after her sister passed, looks like her brother will be gone too. Both of her siblings gone in the same year. Fuck.
This isn’t exactly unexpected; his health has been poor for the last 4 years. But every time we thought it was “his time,” he hung on. He weathered a major stroke, bedsores, various infections, you name it - while we all just hoped he would go.
In the end, his organs just started shutting down. Kidneys failed on Sunday. I expect there’ll be a funeral by the weekend.
So I’m on the Virgin America redeye to JFK tonight and will stay through Sunday. When mom cries, I go.