It sucked.
One of my best friends died of Covid, unexpectedly.
Guy in my shop at work got a cancer diagnosis.
Guy across the hall at work has to have open heart surgery in about a week.
Another guy I work close to in another shop passed out in a meeting from a possible stroke.
All but the friend that died are younger than me.
All of this happened/became apparent before noon.
Today sucked.

Sorry, friend.

Sorry to hear about that. Hang in there!

My goodness I'm sorry.

Once had a year like that and it sucked.

Wow. Yeah, I can see how that would be sobering

Wow.

Very sorry to read about your day.

Sorry about your friend H. May he Rip.
Prayers sent for your other friends that they may all recover and heal fully.

I don't have many close personal relationships although I think a good number of people consider me their friend.

I did have one guy, an ex-park ranger who retired because his congenital disease causing blindness eventually showed up. He was the one available to go for coffee when I needed to vent about my work issues. My quip to him was I recognize the irony about whining about my problems to a blind guy who has a 40 year old specially disabled daughter and whose wife was going through cancer treatment.

But over the years, he saw that I finally made it through to the other side and he was happy for me. We would also go out for coffee and just shoot the breeze. I learned he didn't have too many people who would take him out and just shoot the breeze even though a lot of people liked him.

He was sad about me leaving the state. During our back and forth trips to California, I surprised him by showing up at his door with a large mocha.

On our final trip, I made a point to take him out for coffee again. We exchanged phone calls a few times after that. Then I learned he got Covid from which he died about three weeks ago. Rest in peace, Lee.

At least, we enjoyed our times together and had fun. Usually from me making jokes at his expense centered around his blindness. He was that good of a sport.

Hudr,

Sorry to hear man. I'm glad you came here to vent a little, we've all had bad days and yeah, yours is definitely one of those.

Hopefully you'll have some better days ahead.

Damn, wasn't expecting a post like that.... that's a whole shit filled morning.
Hang in there!

in case anyone is interested.

https://www.legacy.com/funeral...0123826&v=batesville

We were neighbors. His dad and mine were best friends. We were gonna get rich swapping cows back and forth between each other.
He wore out a pickup and stock trailer hauling show calves for the local FFA and 4H. If you couldn't get along with this man, you were an asshole.
over my life, the stories are innumerable.

The older you get , the more days like that you will have . Sad statistic .

Very sorry for those losses, I've no words

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Originally posted by hudr:... If you couldn't get along with this man, you were an asshole.
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That's the face of someone with nothing but love to give to any living thing.

I am sorry for your current anguish, but knowing you have friends like Ricky, you are rich beyond words.