OT Enjoy yourself

It's later than you think.

Damn but it's been a bad week to be a first cousin of
the Fortenberry/Hammerstrands. One of my dad's brothers
lost his 41 year old daughter Kelli last week. The cops
in Phoenix are calling it suicide. Kristine's first
cousin finally succumbed at age 44 to the cancer she's
been battling for two years. Kristine and her mom are
on their way back to Chambana today from the funeral in
Janesville, Wisconsin when my mom calls with the news
that my dad's youngest brother's son, my cousin Brian,
is all but dead in an Alabama hospital this afternoon.
He was in a car wreck last night and as soon as they get
all their ducks in a row for organ harvesting he'll be
dead, probably later on today.

I'm off to Guntersville, Alabama ... again. What a ****ed
up week.

Like the Subject: says ...

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Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
It's later than you think.

Damn but it's been a bad week to be a first cousin of
the Fortenberry/Hammerstrands. One of my dad's brothers
lost his 41 year old daughter Kelli last week. The cops
in Phoenix are calling it suicide. Kristine's first
cousin finally succumbed at age 44 to the cancer she's
been battling for two years. Kristine and her mom are
on their way back to Chambana today from the funeral in
Janesville, Wisconsin when my mom calls with the news
that my dad's youngest brother's son, my cousin Brian,
is all but dead in an Alabama hospital this afternoon.
He was in a car wreck last night and as soon as they get
all their ducks in a row for organ harvesting he'll be
dead, probably later on today.

I'm off to Guntersville, Alabama ... again. What a ****ed
up week.

Good luck with all that, Ken.

Like the Subject: says ...

You've got that right.
--
TL,
Tim
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Tim J. wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
...
I'm off to Guntersville, Alabama ... again. What a ****ed
up week.

Good luck with all that, Ken.

Thanks, Tim. I didn't know my cousins all that well,
and Kristine's not at all. But the deaths of three
relatively young adults, 44, 41 and Brian can't be
30 yet, all within such a short period kinda makes
me get all circumspect and ****.

So I'm shuffling and rearranging and waiting to hear
the final news. There may be a stop in Graham County
on my way home from the funeral. Fly fishing is good
for what ails ya. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:48:55 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

It's later than you think.
(snipped)

I'm off to Guntersville, Alabama ... again. What a ****ed
up week.

Like the Subject: says ...

I've found the main saving grace in a mess like that (I call them
times of contagious death) is that it's so overwhelming that I get
pretty numb about it. Luckily I've only had 3 bouts of it so far in my
lifetime and the first one was all people I'd not seen for some time
or been really close to at any time. Also most of mine, except the
last, stretched over a couple of months.

Cyli
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