windemere | The Disaster of the Year and The Best Trip Ever

This is a good news and disaster news post. It's one of the few times in my life where everything has gone wrong and one end and everything right on the other.

You have to understand that two years ago my nana died while we were in the Bahamas and it took us two days to get home. I hoped to any god that would listen that it wouldn't happen again. Clearly, the gods think I'm not worth the trouble.

We left on Tuesday. On Wednesday my mother's first cousin died of a sudden stroke. We'd seen him ten days before at a party. The same day my cousin's aunt died after a ten year battle with cancer. A day later my cousin's step-father died (her mother died two months ago). The same day my cousin (the one who's aunt died) had a friend die quite suddenly. I have returned to Canada to find that grandmother not only has cancer again, but is scheduled for surgery on the 28th, when I am in Greece. She will be going from the hospital to a nursing home afterwards. The doctors have clearly stated that since this is the second time in six months she's developed a tumor, it will probably happen a third time within the year. And probably be much, much worse.

My cousin is about to declare bankrupcy from paying her husband's hospital bills for the last two years. Her sister, who's husband died last Wed. (see above) will likely be following suit as they are broke and were only getting by because they both worked.

And I had the best fucking holiday of my life. (See next post)