A bee sting?
Jesus...
What do you say to a guy when that happens? Speechless...
A guy who I work with and have become pretty good friends with had to fly back east to attend his sister's funeral.
It turns out.... It was just a regular weeknight. His sister and her husband were watching TV. The show broke to ads, and she got up off of the couch to get something from the kitchen.
She took one step, then collapsed onto the carpet, dead. She was 32.
The doctors surmise that she was probably dead before she even hit the ground. Massive strange explosive heart attack.
The last few days I have spent trying to block out that image from my mind. Yer sitting on the couch, average night, watching TV, yer wife gets up, and dies.
Or... You're watching yer kid jump through the sprinkler or whatever, gets stung by a bee, and dies.
Sox..... It is to a fault that these things hit me pretty hard, even though I have never even met the folks involved. Some things I just can't fathom, despite my mind's wont to loop it.
My sincere hope and prayer that Julie's story comes with a happy ending.
This is an ugly summer. Particularly.
In this case, I hope that whatever forces that have made this summer such that it is, stop, reflect, and in Julie's case, relent.
