[AngelPhiSig]

After all the stress with my job - and then the job hunt...

two weeks ago my moms bf Jim went into the hospital. They thought he had pnumonia (sp). They then realized it was a problem with the disease he had - pulmonary fibrosis.

They put him in a coma on Thurs to take a biopsy of his lung. My mom told me on Friday that he was never going to come out of the coma. His lungs were destroyed by the disease and it would be inhumaine to take him off of the respirator. On Saturday the family made the decision to take him off life support.

My mom had known Jim since he was in first and she was in second. He was best friends with her brother. They have been dating since November and it was great. My mom has fibromyalgia and is often stuck in the house and at times bedridden. He was a great companion to her.

It was just sudden, and really hard to sit there and see this man who was wonderful to me and my family, in a bed - alive, but not really.

He donated his organs and since Phi Sig is doing stuff with Transplant Games, I might see what I can do to help out there.

So this memorial weekend, I was doing a float with my Beta Sigma Phi chapter (3rd place!) and dealing with Jim's death and then yesterday after my first day back at my job - I went to the doctors and got diagnosed with a very very bad case of strep throat.

Fantastic.

I had to first cancel my plans to visit my bf this weekend (I have Fri off) due to Jim's funeral (I havent seen Cory since March!) Now I had to cancel my interview due to the strep and the funeral preperations (I had Thurs off for the interview)

Ugh.

Im asking for prayers too - please keep my mom in your prayers. Shes not well as it is and this is just breaking her heart...

Life kinda sucks some time!

But I get a lot of reading done/scrapbooking!

Carolyn,
I will def. keep your BFs family in my prayers. My grandfather had lung cancer - it was a difficult time!!
-Alison