------------------------------------------------- Title: An eventful, and sad week. Date: 2022-05-17 Device: Desktop Mood: Middling. ------------------------------------------------- I feel kind of unstable at the moment. As per the trajectory, my grandfather passed away last week. Quietly, in the night. My dad was with him at the time. I'd been with him a few hours before. He was agitated, too hot, and was kicking off his covers. But he couldn't speak, so I just tried to comfort him, told him I loved him. The doctor said it was more likely that it was due to heart damage after his Covid/pneumonia earlier in the year, exacerbated by the cancer. I think that's a medical perspective on what most people would just call 'old age'. A few days of quiet after, and then back to work. But I've been snappy and probably quite unpleasant at work. I seem to have such a short temper at the moment. I don't particularly feel grief, I don't think; I have had a lot of time to adjust to the reality that he was very old and wouldn't be with us much longer. But if there's grief in there, it's squeezing out of the cracks in other ways. --C