And the hits keep on coming...again, as my 32nd year of life begins, I am reminded of just how lucky I am. How fragile life can be, how incredibly cruel it can be, how fate can just take something so magical and pervert it into something terrible.
Someone I knew back in the days, from the old neighborhood, I wouldn't say a friend of mine at any point in time, but one of those guys you knew, still lives back in my old town. Popular guy, successful, family - for all intents and purposes, he stayed the guy you want to be. Last week, he had to endure a week filled with such highs and lows, I cannot even imagine.
His wife went to the hospital to deliver their second daughter...their first, a toddler. After some time, they ended up doing an emergency c-section. Announced it on facebook, everything was great, they were the luckiest parents...an hour later, she was found on the floor, blue. A blood clot from the the c-section. She had emergency open heart surgery. She was put in a medically induced coma. Friday, she was declared brain dead. Saturday, they removed life support.
In one week, they went from the beauty of life beginning to the tragedy of life ending. It makes you hug your kids a little tighter...
And my other friend, her daughter is still having breathing issues, small seizures...pray please.
On a good note, another friend deliver two LARGE and heatlhy twins boys on my birthday...hooray for good news.
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