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January 28, 2007
Someone Else's Grief
I received an email today announcing that a friend's husband died late last night. This was not unexpected. He was diagnosed with leukemia a little over a year ago. In fact, when I heard they were home last week, I said to Dave, "I bet the hospital sent him home to die." I am so sorry that I was right.
This man's illness is the reason I'm adjunct faculty right now. His wife, now his widow, is the person I've spent the last three semesters covering for in Comm. Their tremendous misfortune has been very, very good for me, though I've known every step of the way that my good luck was a result of their very great pain. And even now, as I feel for her in her time of loss, I am overwhelmingly aware of my many blessings. Someday, I will be the widow. May that day be a very, very long time from now. And may Charla and her children find peace and comfort in the coming time without their husband and father.
Posted by sally at January 28, 2007 04:22 PM
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