How much can one family bear...?

[Bbbananas]

Some of you may remember, around a year ago, I wrote about my son's best friend who died falling off scaffolding on a building site - he fell backwards, the wheelbarrow & bricks fell on top of him, breaking his neck & crushing his thorax. He was 27. My son was a pallbearer.

That is bad enough for any family to bear, surely - but get this. The mother has had a relapse of her cancer; which is now terminal & metastatic. No doubt her grief will not have helped. She is 47. On Sunday their youngest son, 24, was rushed into intensive care with swine flu, which has developed into pneumonia. He is now in an induced coma and fighting for his life.

All this has happened to this family in the space of just over 2 years. I say this, not to be morbid, but to remind those of us who have not much else to moan about other than work, bills, niggles & aches, the weather, the VAT.... take a minute....

[marval]

That is awful news, especially for one family. It makes things I worry about seem totally insignificant, my thoughts are with them all.

[Mamyalynne]

This family are in my prayers, somehow you wonder how people get through all this, it is the human condition but nonetheless almost too much to bear.
Thinking of them.

[DEN53]

Salla, I am so sorry to hear this awful news.

That poor woman must be beside herself with grief. A lady I know was rushed into hospital over Christmas with pneumonia and swine flu, she also was put into an induced coma and fought for her life. I heard yesterday, she is out of the coma but still in our local hospital.

The lad is young and healthy, so lets pray he comes through this.
Den xx