On Monday it was the 10th anniversary of my father's death.
That morning we learned of the passing of a friend of ours. Harry had went to elementary school with him and I have known him since I was 15. It's like we all grew together married had kids divorced.... Well he did the cycle a few times and leaves behind 4 kids. Two of which are only 10 and 12. He lived a fast life and in the end it caught up with him and he died in his sleep. They are dong an autopsy but they figure heart or kidney failure. He was on dialysis these last few months waiting for a non-existent kidney doner. His life wasn't perfect but I don't think anyones is. R.I.P. Mark 49 is too young to go :..(
Oh Carol....hasn't started out to be a good week for you at all - I'm so sorry.......yes, 49 is much too young to go.....but at least it was a peaceful end which I guess is all that we can hope for.
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ReplyDeleteCondolences at the loss of your friend, Mark.
ReplyDeleteIt is so hard to lose a close friend. I lost two this past year, and I have a hard time handling it, because one was like Mark, a friend from grade school, and she passed away in Minnesota, where I am from originally. The other was a friend from here in Gresham, who was the only one who visited me while I was in the nursing home. I can't believe she is gone either. Both of these deaths were rather sudden. I was totally unprepared, so I know how you feel.
It scares me that you believe it might be kidney failure. You know I am on dialysis. I have been on dialysis since I became ill in May, 2007. No one thinks I am going to be going anywhere soon though...we are waiting for the cancer tests to come back and give me the "all clear" so that I can be put on a transplant list. They even think that my brother might be a match....wouldn't that be great!!! But because of the recent cancer, everything is on "HOLD". Oh well, I am alive, and after the last two years, that, in itself, is indeed a miracle.
I will be praying for you as you mourn your loss. God bless.
Oh My Goodness! That Breaks my heart, Carol. I am so sad for his children, and his friends. your right, 49 is too young to go. i hope he at least had a fun life, if he was living it fast. I never know what the right thing to say in these cases are. Remember you friend in his best years, when he was having the time of hsi life, and you all laughed together.
ReplyDeletethanks to you all. We still dont' know the results of the autopsy but his celebration of life will be a week from Monday. I was looking through pictures as his niece wanted to do a video slide show and I find I have very few of Mark.
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