Always strange when its sudden

[primsong]

I usually go swimming in the morning at the local pool, missed yesterday to help a friend with delivery of some furniture, guess it was a good thing - showed up this morning and they told me one of the women we swim with had finished swimming, gone into the locker room, showered and then sat down on a bench and died. 0_0

The medics came and everyone was sent home and the pool shut for the day. I just keep thinking about how she had spent most of the past year dealing with living in a hotel during a remodel of her home which had flooded, and how happy she was to finally be back in her own home, looking forward to a better year ahead. And now she's gone. She didn't get to be in that remodeled home but a couple months...though I suppose it means its all in order if her family needs to sell it now. We really never know how long we have, it's both a shock and a mercy when it is quick.

Crazy stuff.

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[senmut]

I pray for that mercy.

Many hugs offered for the shock of it.

[primsong]

Amen - I'd rather go quickly as well. Who really wants to linger if they had the choice, I wonder? My dad went like that, just sort of rolled out of his jeep that he'd parked to watch a polo game in a local field. We were grateful, my brother and I, because he was getting to be a crabby fellow in his old age and we dreaded dealing with him in a nursing home.