It's been a while since I've updated my blog so here is a short rundown.
January sucked. That's the best thing I can say about it. I'm glad it's over. February really cannot be any worse.
First of all, my best friend's granddaughter died unexpectedly at the age of 4 months. She was born with Down syndrome and had a heart problem. But it was not something that they couldn't fix. But Brenlee had other unexpected complications that delayed scheduling her heart surgery. At first, they thought that a blood clot had gotten to her lungs. The autopsy ruled that out. Then, they said that her heart just gave out and stopped. But her mother went to meet with the doctors for the final autopsy report and they told her that the cause of death was a stroke. That caused her lungs to shut down which in turn, caused her heart to stop.
So I went to the viewing....a viewing of a 4 month old baby girl laying in a casket. It's just so wrong. I will never get the vision out of my head. It's haunting in more ways than I can explain here.
On the same day that Brenlee died, my brother's best friend was killed in a car accident. The other driver ran a stop sign and Dan was ejected from his van. Granted, he wasn't wearing his seatbelt but that doesn't change the fact that his death was so hard to take for my brother. I hurt for him.
When my son was younger, he was in Boy Scouts. I was one of the troop leaders. I formed several great and lasting friendships, which I have maintained, even though my son is grown. One of those friendships was with Sherry, the mother of one of the other scouts. She was what I call 'good people'. She was always ready and willing to help out in any way that was needed, in or outside of scouts. She was down to earth and funny.
But Sherry had heart problems. She has had several episodes of being hospitalized and having different procedures done on her heart. She has just told us this past Christmas how excited she was that she had gone more than a year with no more problems.
Sherry had a heart attack and died on January 28th. I am so sad. Sad for myself but mostly sad for her son and daughter and two granddaughter's, whom she adored and lived for. The world was a better place with Sherry in it.
So me and Robin and Chris (the other two of the moms' who have kept in touch since scouting) planned and prepared a dinner for after the funeral. it went well and everyone was very grateful. But Sherry wasn't there.
Her son, Nick, has asked that the remaining three of us continue to get together at Christmas because his mom would want that. She loved out get togethers each year and looked forward to them. So we will continue to do so....in Sherry's memory. And I will buy a rum and Coke and place it in the Center of the table for Sherry. It was her favorite drink.
So that's how my month has gone. I'm glad January is over with. Seriously.
I'll try to make the next update a little less of a downer.
