i just found out that a former coworker passed away earlier this week.
She got laid off about a year and a half ago after our company was sold, and we had been keeping touch via e-mail. I was thinking about her a few weeks ago - that I hadn't heard from her lately - but i got busy and never sent an e-mail.
I'm not exactly sure what was wrong - just that she was ill, spent a few weeks in the hospital, but was released on Friday and passed away at home. She was only in her early-mid 50s.
co-worker was my admin support for my last role - she lived in TN, so we only got to meet in person once when i was in town for business. She was a really sweet lady, a lot of fun, and had a great sense of humor.
When I was in town, she invited myself and another coworker to dinner at her house. She was a huge Elvis fan, so had a lot of Elvis memorabilia around her house. She also had framed naked pictures of herself in her younger days hanging in her living room - taken by her photographer ExH. She got a bit drunk and made us an awesome meal while we put together her lawn chairs. She had asked me to bring pics of DK, the house, dogs, etc - and when she got to to her first pic of DK her comment was fantastic " Ohhhh, he's a hottie. I bet he's got a huge d*ck - he's packing, right?" (DK walked around with his chest puffed out for a good week after this...) From that point on, she always referred to DK as my "well hung hunk."
D will be missed.