the bells had toiled the end had come, the time is calling to put all things behind. no warning no sign, but that's death when it comes sometimes. it might be an accident that no one can foretell. it might be a lingering sickness that's forever here, eating your body away until it gives in.the earth had suddenly stopped to turn for you. the sun in your eyes had stopped its forever glow. the stars and the planet are gone. your rhythmic breath is turning weak. it's goodbye, it's your permanent break. the time to take a bow for you is now.
life is just a sudden gust of the passing wind. life is like a meteor that's up but will be falling down. life is but a dream sometimes. so short, so sad, so quick and timed...
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a sudden fall like what the late film actress Natasha Richardson (wife of Liam Neeson) had suffered is not unusual and closed head injury is very common in our everyday lives. but hers is those rare ones that can claim a life...i had a closed head injury one winter day when i was riding in a taxi at the back seat. the driver skidded and hit a lamp post and my head by gravity's sheer force hit the hard plastic divider between driver and passenger and i lost consciousness. i woke up in the emergency room of a hospital nearby with a fever, being given antibiotics and getting a head cat scan where it will show to the Md's if i suffered internal bleeding in my brain. luckily i did not, just a blunt trauma enough to knock me out. after 12 hrs. in the ER i was cleared to go home with a displaced front teeth to be fixed later, a stitched chin, 8-10 stitches and a big mass inside the roof of my inner mouth that i can barely be understood when i talk. i was off work for only a month, thank God for that... for it could really be worst like what this beautiful lady had in her fall...
emergency aid was dispatched to help her but the report showed that she refused to go to the hospital for she felt fine after the skiing lesson's fall. but we will know later that she had internal bleeding in her brain that formed into a clot that caused severe pressure inside her brain that a routine head cat scan could have detected and a very routine procedure of relieving that pressure by opening her skull and stopping the bleeding and taking out the clot could have saved her life. just so sad for she could have lived...this is the same thing that i fear for Michael during his seizure episodes...that he might hit his head for twice a month now he is seizing...i pray every day for his safety...for people can get hurt badly and the head is a very vulnerable part of our body. if a helmet was worn in this lady's skiing lesson that could have also protected her...but maybe it's her time to go at 45. so young, award winning, very talented, beautiful, but now gone...life lost, love lost for her family, just sad.
"passing" art by jennifer belote...
