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A little shocked and having a sad
I just got off the phone with a coworker who works in one of my company's Canadian branches. I've been with my company for four years, and I've handled this branch's accounting stuff since day 1. I've come to really enjoy the guys I work with there, am Facebook friends with two of them, call them up just to joke around (especially since I know they're busy and stressed out right now).
So, I talked to Coworker A, who tells me that Coworker B, who's been my main contact there since day 1, had "some shiiit" go down after work yesterday. Come to find out that Coworker B's wife had kicked him out due to a problem with alcohol. Also find out that the "vacation" he'd taken a couple months ago was really him being MIA due to an alcohol issue. They're a small, close, tight-knit group of guys and they've been trying to get him help. I had a feeling something was up about two months ago when he wasn't being his normal joking self; I attributed it to the fact that their branch has been swamped lately and he was just stressed.
FF to last night. Apparently, in his new place he's moved into since his wife kicked him out, he fell and hit his head. He had emergency brain surgery in the wee hours of the morning and they didn't expect him to live through the surgery. Well, Coworker A got a text from his wife around lunchtime, who is at the hospital, who said he lived through the surgery, but there's no sign of any brain activity. So it's very likely that he'll die naturally or have to be taken off life support. If by some miracle he lives, he'll apparently never be the same and may suffer stroke-like effects.
He's in his early 40s, has three small children under six (his daughter is three months older than mine), and is really an all-around nice guy. I am just shocked and so, so sad for his kids and his wife.
Re: A little shocked and having a sad
Oh no, malibu
I'm so sorry.
Jesus, I am sorry.
T&P for all who knew him.