Another Goodbye.

It has been another tragic week for my family.
Monday night my aunt and uncle were driving home from my cousin's soccer game and were hit by a driver who ran a stop sign. My aunt was killed instantly. My uncle was airlifted into sugery and was operated on. He suffered a punctured lung, broken ribs and bones, lacerated liver, torn diaphram. Maybe more that I don't even know about yet. They have two boys--one is a senior in high school and will be graduating as the valedictorian. The other is 20 and sophomore in college. My aunt, Jody was a high school librarian. They live near us in a Milwaukee suburb. Jody and my uncle Steve dated since they were 16. I was the flowergirl in their wedding when I was 6. And now she is gone forever and he is suffering. She was 47. They had just celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary. They were a wonderful couple, she was the model mother. And my boy cousins will have to face a life without her. My uncle will face living alone. And our family will lose a woman that was so much a presence in our lives. It sucks. Death, especially tragic unexplicable death, hurts more than I am able to express. I don't even want to let it in yet. But I have to.

I am on my way to the hospital.
To join the family that has come to rely on each other.
My mom's amazing family of 10 siblings, spouses and 36 cousins.
I will try and offer whatever I can and try not to break donwn too much.
*Sigh*