Death

My blog was to briefly mention the death of my other blog - Face Dances. It was a great place to rant and vent but in the end I became very bored of it. So it ceased to be today.

Then my focus changed after receiving a call from my best friend. It was to let me know her (step) father passed away. We knew this was coming two months ago. How the doctors can predict these things I don't know but they were pretty close to the date of his death. Gerry was like a second father to me. He called me his "adopted daugther". He had a wonderful sense of humour, was playful, youthful and warm. His death has not hit me yet. I am still trying to send my energy to a co-worker W who lost her father on Christmas Eve. Both of these men had cancer. While the co-worker W's father's ultimate cause of death was from a heart attack it stemmed from an operation he had on the 22nd to remove a cancerous growth on his lung. His lung had to be removed and in the process they "accidently" nicked an artery which caused a lot of blood loss.

There has been an aura of death around our department at work. I think I may have mentioned this once before. Another co-worker D within a matter of two months lost two close friends, a cousin, her uncle (who was co-worker W's father in law) and her father. My supervisor lost her mother in law and a former co-worker K lost her mother in law as well. I lost my Divinity. Now we have these two recent deaths. It's all too much. We all agreed we weren't going to wish eachother a Happy New Year or say we were looking forward to 2007. Instead we agreed just to say, good riddance to 2006 and take 2007 day by day. I have often wondered if the planets were out of alignment this year because there has been so much upheaval. All this just empathizes how short life is and to move forward not backwards.