Feeling kind of bummed

R. Zimm

R. Zimm

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SE Florida
I just found out today that a girl I went to high school with passed away. Turns out she had taken a nasty fall down a flight of stairs a number of years ago and was paralyzed. Our class has been reconnecting though Facebook of late so that's how the word is getting out.

What bums me is that this girl was one of the nicest people I knew in school, everyone liked her but I never heard about her accident. I'll try to make the funeral next week since it's local.

In other better news another galin our class had a major heart attack where they found 95% blockage. She was operated on and is recovering.

Two sides of the same coin I suppose. Thanks for listening.
 

I am so sorry:( I too, lost a schoolmate when she fell down the basement stairs with a basket full of laundry. She was still in her 20's and left two small children behind. Also like your schoolmate, my friend was one of the sweetest people - if you didn't like Georgianne, there was something wrong with you:(

Sadly, we have entered the age where we are going to hear of these things with more frequency.

I think most of us, on this forum, still get around pretty good. It's something none of us should take for granted as many of us have something that slows us down. Something as simple as trotting down three steps could wipe us out, these days.

I stood on the bed, the other day, and stretched to clean the paddles on the ceiling fan when it would have been safer to get the step ladder out of the garage. A dumb thing to do when I was young but really idiotic when one has vertigo and the lower back is shot all to h**l

I hope your tomorrow is better:)
 
That's too bad. It's always a shame when good friends from a long time ago passes away. One of my good college buddies passed away last year, which was a real bummer for me as we remained close since we graduated. I am sorry for your loss.
 

My condolences, Zimmy.

I've been fortunate in that only a relative few of my friends have passed at an early age, and usually it was due to self-inflicted addictions and weaknesses. That didn't lessen the pain, but at least the entire event was put into some kind of context.

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
~ Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
 
I know how you feel Zimm. I had an old high school friend and also a next door neighbor die in the same week. We have lost an awfully lot of our high school classmates. At my age it is expected but that doesn't make it any easier.
 
Thanks, all, your support does feel right good. We have lost a few of the class plus there are many that we are not in contact with. A few years ago a fellow from a later class organized a multi year reunion at a local Hilton righ next to the airport. That has worked out great and now is annual event and many people fly in, stay at the Hilton for the weekend. I've made a couple. You would have thunk I'd make them all because I live about three miles from this place but some years I had to work or was out of town or something.
 
Well, I did make the funeral service. It was scheduled from 5-7 pm and I got off at 5. It then took me 30 minutes to get to the FH and since it was in progress I just stayed in the back. I found out after that they changed the time to 4-6 which explained why it was so short.

Got to say hi to her Dad and see some old friends.
 

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