2 posts tagged “cyndi & scott”
he passed away this morning. :*(
I called my cousin, C, to chat last night during my drive home from a meeting, but she didn't pick up. With no one to talk to, I started to reflect on 2007. I don't remember the first half of 2007 at all, but I do remember how much the tail end of 2007 sucked. Lost an uncle and former student the same weekend, grandma got ill, grandpa passed away... 2007 sucked and I was looking forward to a new year. I was hopeful for a better 2008.
Unfortunately, the reason why my cousin, C, did not answer was because she was in the ER with her husband. He had a brain aneurysm an hour before I called her. The rupture is in the stem of his brain, so there is nothing that can be done. He's currently intubated and in ICU. He's no longer breathing on his own, his eyes were unresponsive to light and a poke, so it's just time before the rest of his body shuts down.
I took this picture only 4 2 months ago. They were just starting their journey together.
I got a call at 3am from her sister (who's husband was murdered 2 years ago when she was 5 months pregnant and only married for 8 months... like I said, life sucks). She called to tell me that C's house has a really bad leak and needed us to come over to help. Weird thing is right after I got off the phone with her, our lights started flickering. I sat there disoriented with the news and with the flickering lights. Then it was calm, but him being in a coma was still so hard to comprehend. I sat there disoriented, and realized that the power had gone out right after I got off the phone with her.
So we use our cellphones for light to get dressed and headed out. When we got there, her leak was BAD. It would fill a bucket in 15 minutes. My cousin was exhausted and wanted to go home, so she just needed us to babysit the leak. Luckily, J and I were able to come up with a contraption to tunnel the leak straight to the sink. Literally, when it rains, it pours.
Once the leak was under control, we locked up and went to the hospital. This whole thing is so sad. His daughter, B, actually just lost her grandma new years eve. So while her mom is dealing with that, C was unable to contact her. So problem #2 is that B is expecting him to pick her up from chinese school today, but no one knows where it is and no one is able to contact her mom. So I went home to do some research but found nothing. Good thing, the mom ended up calling back. But poor B! She'll have her grandma & dad's funeral to attend back-to-back.
C was collected as she told us the prognosis, and said multiple times that he's not going to make it, but when she talked to him, she kept begging him to wake up and that she doesn't know what to do without him. This is going to be so difficult for her.
How is it that both sisters lost their husbands within the first year of marriage? What screwed up world is that? Every time a tragedy like this occurs, I just question so much. Was it destined to be this way? so cruel.
