June 6th

Yesterday turned out to be a somewhat emotional day for several reasons.

Kevin emailed me in the morning and said that yesterday was the 1 year anniversary of when Kevin and a coworker saved another coworker's life. I wrote about it extensively about a year ago; a coworker, D., dropped from a "widowmaker" heart attack, right in the lab.  K's coworker G. started CPR within seconds of D's heart stopping, and Kevin had an AED device on him within a couple of minutes.  The AED restarted D's heart, and he partially regained consciousness by the time paramedics arrived.  After extensive surgery and medical treatment, D. came back to work and is doing very well.

There was a small ceremony/celebration at work yesterday, rejoicing in D's survival.

June 6th, 2013,  was also the day when Paul H. died,

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I've been following his widow's blog for close to a year now.  Paul was only 42 years old when he had a major epileptic seizure at night and suffocated before his wife could call for help.  Now Sarah walks a lonely road as a widow and mother of 6 children.

Yesterday was also a memorial service for little Nora Rose Yusko, who died on June 3rd.  Nora was born with Trisomy 18, which usually results in stillbirth or death within hours of birth.  Nora lit up the lives of her family and many blog readers for 2 years.

I am not trying to dwell on DEATH, but I am thinking how fragile life can be.  It isn't good to be moody and depressed, but it IS wise to rejoice in each day and to remember that life really can end suddenly.  It is good to rejoice in good health, in God's protection over us, while also realizing that realistically, unexpected and tragic things CAN happen.  It is good to not get too wound up with minutiae.  I tend to be guilty of that -- I get stressed about messy floors and grumpy kids, when in the grand scheme of things, messiness and grumpiness are relatively minor problems.