Weight: 184.4 lbs.
I am not talking about this blog which is not only not gone too soon, but probably has gone on way past its expiration date.
I am referring to the unspeakably sad, tragic and sudden death of my co-workers son last night. Paul called me in the evening to ask if I would cancel his clients for today, as there was an “emergency” in his family. He and his wife apparently found their young son dead in his nearby home at dinnertime. Apparently from the pancreatitis he had had bouts of over the last few years and had been ravaged by. But was not expected to die of.
When you work in a small department like I do, you get very close with your colleagues. I have worked with Paul, our psychologist, for 17 years, and we were as “intimate” as two individuals can get who see each other on a weekly basis and share a small suite. He is a proud man of what was two sons, one of whom is to be married soon.
It was my duty to inform the others, and I spent all evening making sad, horrible calls to the rest of our colleagues as Paul asked me to. There is nothing that can be really said in the face of such tragedy. But clearly, it shows how life can change in a hearbeat, and that which we prioritize one minute seems trivial and ridiculous the next.
I couldn’t just blog about food today, and will add one extra day to this site, making Friday its last day instead. To try and still end on a bariatrically relevent note…even if it all seems so meaningless at the moment.
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April 27th, 2011 | Categories: 
My goodness you have so many unexpected deaths in your department or agency. It is so sad and I can’t imagine the pain they must be experiencing. It must be hard to stand by and watch people grieve. I know it is a part of life but it is the hardest part I believe. Very sensitive of you not to blog about food as this is a sad time for all of you.
Hi Barb,
I can’t even imagine the pain of a parent who loses a child in their twenties so suddenly and tragically. Please send your best thoughts out to Paul along with those of us who work with him.
(And to add insult to injury, our clinic had an unannounced DOH audit yesterday and today!) Work has become a quiet, somber, sad place….
Gosh you sound like you are experiencing PFI luck.Why a DOH audit? Is it for the Clinic part of Aspire? I’m sure you are going to do fine and the good news is they may give you a deficiency which you can correct and move forward but not take money back. Also, I must have misunderstood because I thought you were going to do it for one more year. Did that change?
Hello.
The DOH audit was for the clinic, but only one of the MH departments charts were pulled. The rest were OT, PT and speech I think. And yes, it turns out that we did do well!!
AS to my blog, no, it is definitely ending tomorrow. But, the website can now remain intact and up for another year…just inactive unless I post something every now and again. Which I might - but definitely not daily. Originally the rights to the site and its name were going to also expire days after my 4/28 posting, and the site would have been dectivated…meaning that it would no longer be accessible at all and couldn’t be found through search engines etc. Roy said that even I couldn’t get to it, meaning that all the pics that I have stored behind the scenes etc., would no longer be available to me. And since I haven’t stored them anywhere else, this would have been doubley tragic!! (So for all these reasons we paid to keep the site up for another year).
Hope this clarifies!