Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Weekend Update--Part 2

The other thing that happened is that someone we know from our old ward died. It is a really tragic circumstance too, as he was only about 30 years old. He has a wife who is 7 months pregnant and an adorable kindergarten-aged daughter. Apparently his wife got up in the night and saw her husband sitting up in bed with a strange look on his face. She asked if he was okay and he said he didn't know. Then he fell over. The ambulance came and took him to the hospital, where he spent the week. Unfortunately all his organs had shut down for some reason (aneurysm? blood clot? I'm not sure) and he was supported by machines. The neurologist said that his brain had swollen and would never recover. So the family had to make the terrible decision to pull him off of his support systems. He passed away several hours later.

We offered our casita to the family for extended family members and we have a set of grandparents staying with us. They are really nice. They have twin 3-year-old great-granddaughters and found our boys to be amusing.

The funeral is tomorrow afternoon.

Again, all my deep thoughts on death and life have been in the forefront of my mind.

1 comment:

brooklyn said...

oh my goodness. those kind of stories make me sick to my stomach. so sad (and scary!)