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[wiseheart]

One of my former classmates of ten years died in December from brain aneurysm... whatever it is. *looks at ithilwen hopelessly*

She was a teacher, too. She went to work one day, like always, and within the hour, she was dead. Just like that. The e-mail announcing her funeral haven't even reached me. I'v only learned about it three days ago. Well... it seems it's our turn now.

On a lighter note, I've baked walnut muffins with apples and cranberries yesterday. It's a recipe I found in the book "Muffins and Pogatchas" I got from Mum for my birthday... and it's fantastic! I'm determined to try out all recepies without coconuts, poppy seeds and dates, which we both hate. The rest lookes very promising.

Got back to work on "The Web of Darkness" a bit. I so hope to finish that story, soon. Before I end like my classmate one day, leaving a huge backlash of unfinished stories behind.

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[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Dear E., I'm sorry to hear about your friend. (An aneurysm is a swollen blood vessel, which can burst suddenly, though I'm sure ithilwen can tell you much more.)

Good luck with the writing and baking - both very good things to be doing *Hugs*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a sad thing, isn't it? She was only a month older than I am, and although she wasn't the first of our class to go, it's still a bit shocking. The other girls died at least fifteen years ago; she had cancer, which is a different matter.

We've lost contact after secondary school but used to be very good friends for a long while... it's hard to believe that she's gone now.

I really want to finish "Web of Darkness". I'm currently working on Chapter 28 now and hope to be done with the whole thing in two more chapters. Or one. It's been going on long enough. I wish I could post it to SoA, at least there one gets a few reviews, but alas, SoA doesn't accept crossovers. *le sigh*

Then I'll have to finish the second chapter of "Movements", which has turned out quite differently from the first one. I'm curious what you'll say to it. I hope there won't be a third chapter, but with me, one never knows...

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

(An aneurysm is a swollen blood vessel, which can burst suddenly, though I'm sure [info]ithilwen can tell you much more.

Not really; there's not much more to tell. Some people are predisposed to them, and they usually can't be diagnosed before they rupture. If the person is lucky, it's a slow leak which causes nothing worse than an excruciating headache, and the aneurysm can be clamped off surgically. If they're not lucky...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your loss. A brain aneurysm is, IIRC, a pretty quick thing, so she didn't suffer for long, but the suddeness must make it more shocking for you.

In an odd coincidence, the Elfling's preschool teacher, who is a year older than I, died suddenly at the end of the week after cancer was discovered all over inside her. The Elfling adored her, as did many of her little pupils (5-6 years old), and in their small preschool, it will be hard for everyone.

Yes, we are in that half of life now. However, you and I have not yet had our tea and sweets at that marvelous shop you and Mum favor, so we'll just have to stick around a bit longer!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Indeed, indeed. We cannot leave before we've properly met. Which, considering today's economics, probably means we all need to hold out until we get 120 or so, but hey, that's the silver lining of the cloud, right?

[jilba.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear of your friend's unexpected death. It's so sad. *hugs*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Jillian. We have completely lost contact during the recent decades, but it's still something of a shock. As if part of my childhood would suddenly have gone missing.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

It's as if the people you went to school with are still young and in the school yard playing, isn't it?
I've lost 2 people I went to school with, both, sadly, by their own hands. That is an even bigger shock:(

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. I can understand that things sometims become too much, but still, it's such a radical solution - and an irreversible one.

Thanks for the prezzie, BTW - Mum was so happy with the sweets. She said: "Well, I don't speak English, I wouldn't understand any books or so, but the biscuits are really delicious." As you can see, we both have something of a sweet tooth. *g*

I like the music very much, too.

[skyfiery.livejournal.com]

*hugs tightly* I'm sorry to hear that...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks, little sis. *hugs back*

I assume the worst will be for her two kids... I'm not sure whether her parents are still alive, but they might be, they were roughly of Mum's age. I imagine if they are, they're pretty shaken right now.

[skyfiery.livejournal.com]

I don't blame them. It's very much of a shock to most who knew her.

I'll send good thoughts everyone's way. *hugs*

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear this! *hugs* It makes you think about the precariousness of life again (I had a suicide to cope with before Christmas, a young woman of 36, member of the Dutch Tolkien Society and a gifted poet).

I'm not Ithilwen, so I'm probably way off but isn't a brain aneurysm what's called `Gehirnblütung' in German?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I dunno, perhaps. Gehirnblutung, by the way. Blüte is a flower... now that I think of it, considering the strange things some people's brains produce, perhaps we could talk about a flowering brain.

What would the English language be without us, non-native speakers to enrich it? *g*

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I did it again... putting umlauts where they don't belong (and, though not nearly as often, the other way around). I used to call a certain piano piece by Schumann which I played as a teenager "Einsame Blümen". I don't think anything can be made of that.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about the death of your friend. Life is so fragile!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is. :(