These Things Come in Threes
June 25, 2007 | In: Family
I was working late Friday night during a scheduled maintenance outage and received a phone call from Mom. It was 11:00 PM, and the fact that she was calling made me immediately worried because she’s never up this late.
She told me that another member of my extended family has died. His name’s Steve and he is the husband to my first cousin, Sandy. He was father to five children, including two young fraternal twins (a boy and a girl).
I feel absolutely awful for Sandy. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to lose the love of your life and then have to face the reality of raising children on your own. Thankfully, we are a family that takes care of itself, so I’m sure that Sandy will have all the support she needs.
All of this is just getting old. This is the third death in the family in the last two months, and it is really getting to me. When I got the news of Steve’s passing, I had to go to the other room and get myself together because I had work to get done. I’ve come to the realization that I will be attending a lot of funerals.
The funeral is scheduled on Wednesday. I think I’ll make it to the viewing on Tuesday since it is after work, but I haven’t committed to it yet. Regardless, I’ll be taking the day off work to attend the funeral service.
Someone was recently telling me, after my grandmother died, that these kinds of things happen in threes. I think I’m beginning to believe that, actually, and I sincerely hope all this is the last of it for a long while.
