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Saddest Birthday EVER!
17 years ago
Blah blah blah, insert endless drama below, blah blah.
Last week...April 28, one day after my birthday, at around 5AM, I was playing The Sims 2: Pets on PS2. The phone starts to ring. I'm thinking "Who the hell would call this early in the morning!?" I go to pick up the phone...the caller ID shows my uncle's name and cell number. Before I even picked up the phone, I knew what had happened...
My grandfather, Joel W. Helms, age 76, had died. This was confirmed when I answered the phone to my crying uncle. He had so many things wrong with him, and nobody in the family bothered to ask how he'd died. Turned out to be a blood clot.
It was so sad...in about 3 months, he would've turned 77. At the viewing, my nephew kept point at the body and saying "Joe! Joe!" Poor thing...he's too young to understand that that's a nap he's never waking up from.
On top of all this, mine and my brother's birthdays will never be happy again...his birthday is the day after my brother's, and his death day is the day after mine. Granted, that's not quite as important as the fact that I've now lost both of my grandfathers.
R.I.P. JWH...April 28, 2008.
My grandfather, Joel W. Helms, age 76, had died. This was confirmed when I answered the phone to my crying uncle. He had so many things wrong with him, and nobody in the family bothered to ask how he'd died. Turned out to be a blood clot.
It was so sad...in about 3 months, he would've turned 77. At the viewing, my nephew kept point at the body and saying "Joe! Joe!" Poor thing...he's too young to understand that that's a nap he's never waking up from.
On top of all this, mine and my brother's birthdays will never be happy again...his birthday is the day after my brother's, and his death day is the day after mine. Granted, that's not quite as important as the fact that I've now lost both of my grandfathers.
R.I.P. JWH...April 28, 2008.
Yeah, it's a clichè phrase. But I can't think of anything better to say, unfortunately.
...That is, if they've actually moved on yet, and aren't still...you know...lingering around.