Loss

Heck, I have online friends I've met in real life. Who have seen my daughter grow from an infant to a pre-teen. Wonderful people who have come to mean as much to me as those friends that are physically close. Sometimes more.

For some of us, there is that fear. What if something happens? Would we ever know?

My first really big scare came from my online D&D group. Our DM is in Egypt. We got one message from him in the height of Covid-19 that he and his family were being quarantined. And we waited. 2 weeks passed and we started to worry. 3 weeks and we voiced our worry, supporting each other as we sent him messages.

It took internet sleuthing for one of us to find someone to reach out to. We were relieved as he neared 5 weeks without word to learn that his family had all contracted it, a nd because he was the only doctor in the family, he was put in charge of all their care, essentially. We got lucky, and eventually got our DM back.

This morning, though, I got news I dreaded. That always haunted me in the back of my mind. I lost a internet friend, while she was relatively new she was no less dear. Her husband and close real life friend made sure her network of online friends learned of what happened. 

And so we mourn the loss of a lovely, beautiful soul. Who had meant so much to us. Who we will never see notifications or indicators from again. Who will never find out we are having a bad day and make us laugh, or vice versa. 

Mourning someone who you cannot go see laid to rest is hard. So what are we going to do?

Send a small donation to her family, to help and show she meant as much to us as we did to her. Donate to charity's she loved and supported and be as anti-Karen as possible... because she was among the best anti-Karen out there. And we will raise a glass of her Gin & Grapefruit drink with sugar around the rim.

RIP, Katy. Rest easy in the arms of your Lord. Though he is not mine, I know he will see the beauty of your soul and treasure it in the thereafter as we have in your life.