Punches

Well, I thought I was back… but life decided we needed another punch to the gut.

Right before we got out for Christmas break, my daughter had a band concert. We went and enjoyed socializing with all the kids and band parents.

Nothing unusual, a few kids felt under the weather – but it is winter and the flu is going around – again nothing abnormal … you would think.

So Christmas and New Years came and went. Right before school came back, one of my daughters friends from band died 😭… yes died!

Everyone is in a state of shock, and her brothers have not returned to school.

She evidentially caught the flu, she had started feeling better, and tried to power through it. Then suddenly by Thursday she took a turn for the worse, and died on Friday right before school came back. The flu had attacked her heart and killed her.

She was 13. 💔 had not even began to live her life yet!!

Things happen in the blink of an eye, doesn’t matter how old you are or who you are.

Everyone is absolutely devastated. For the family, she was their only girl, she has 2 other brothers who have to process this pain.

Tomorrow (Sunday) is the Celebration of Life. A celebration of life, is when you are deeply saddened by the loss but want to remember the good or funny things and how a person impacted others. You remember good times, and laughter. Remembering and celebrating her life.

I still find it devastating and this is my daughters first close death experience, which is hard to watch her go through and absorb. My daughter is also only 13.

And as a mother, it just puts it really close to home in many ways. She was my daughters age, and it was the flu that took her.

Why are things so much more deadly nowadays?

If I lost one of my children, there is no possible way I could ever recover from something like that. That would do me in for sure.

To watch another family go through, is completely heart wrenching. I can feel my heart bleeding from the inside for them.

So anyway, tmrw will be hard.

I am having hard time umm?? I’m just kind of quiet currently … while we process and get through things. I will be back after we can breathe again. Thank you for your patience.