I guess I kind of jinxed myself yesterday because I was thinking "August is almost over and nothing bad has happened so far". I knew immediately that I shouldn't have had that thought but, what are you going to do?
I got an email today telling me the second boss I had at the company I work for, died last night. He found out less than three weeks ago that he had cancer and he died that quickly afterwards. We haven't worked together since 1998 and we didn't really stay in close contact with each other but we did, from time to time, have reason to communicate with each other. I've received a couple of emails (work related - not personal) in the last year or so from him. Anyway, I think it was all the things considered that caused me to receive the news as badly as I did (I didn't take it well). The only "positive" thing I could say about it is, hopefully that means I'm done for bad things happening, at least until August 2009.
I promise to start posting more pleasant things in the very near future. Honest.
3 comments:
Wow - how sad. I lost a couple of close family/friends to pancreatic cancer and it happened super fast like that. What kind of cancer was it?
Here's hoping you reach September without anymore bad news.
I didn't hear what kind of cancer. They just said something about he suffered complications and died before they could aggressively attack the cancer.
I only got this through an email (from someone who got it from someone, who got it from someone - and so on) so I didn't get to ask questions - and I don't know that I will hear anything more. He was buried the same day I heard about it (due to his religious beliefs and tradition, he was buried the day after he died). They were hoping to hear about some sort of service that would allow collegues and friends the opportunity to pay their respects but I'm not certain that information would trickle down to me. So what I know now may be all I ever know.
That's horrible. I hope your next month is better. You've had a rough month!
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