Tragedy...

One of the people I used to work with is going through a horrible time in his life... it is unexplainable how tragedy sometimes grips a person's life into its torturous strong hold and sucks all the living juices out of it until just bare dried up fibers are hanging off of a griefstricken face... My former co-worker is fighting cancer... a lot of people who have been affected by this monstrous disease know that this is an all consuming battle for one's life. What can be worse one will ask? Well, a few days ago his son (a young married ivy league school graduate) went out with his friends and decided to experiment with a morphine patch by putting it on his tongue. His brain is now permanently damaged. My heart just aches for the family that has already so much to deal with.