Monday Musings About Loss…

I know I’ve been absent a lot lately.  We lost another dear friend on Friday, a warm and funny woman who was like a sister to my husband growing up.  When he first moved up north, he lived with her family and they all treated him liked one of their own.  In fact, one of hubby’s sisters was married to one of Pat’s brothers so our two families share a niece and two nephews.

Unfortunately, Pat needed a lung transplant a few years ago and had grown frail recently.  The anti-rejection drugs she took made it difficult to fight infections and she was in and out of the hospital.

The wake and funeral are today and tomorrow, a few hours drive from us.  And this comes only a few months after we lost my DSIL in Tennessee to complications from pancreatitis.  It’s sad and difficult and a stark reminder of how short and fragile life really is…