Seems that sad news is all around...

First, yesterday as my friend Bobbi and I were visiting, she told me that her friend's brother in law is extremely ill and has scleroderma. This amazing man has been through multiple treatments to try and save him. He was part of a study that was suppose to improve his quality of life and to hopefully, save him. But now he is not doing well at all and all the family and friends must just pray that he can somehow make it through. Their blog is here http://thedupreyfamily.blogspot.com/
Next, I came to work today to find out that another wonderful man has died. His name is Kevin Couture. He is a writer for our newspaper. Not only is he a writer, he had severe Cerebral Palsy. He was quadraplegic and non-verbal. This amazing person managed to have his own apartment and with minimal assistance, wrote stories for our newspaper on his special computer that helped him type his stories letter by letter! It would take him weeks to finish typing just one story, but he did it. Just a few weeks ago, some of us at work took up a collection for him. It seems that the state threatened to take away his funding help because he "worked too much". Here you have a man that is trying his best to make something of himself and of course he gets assistance because he cannot work a full time job to support himself. He cannot care for himself, etc. But he was a writer because he wanted to be a writer. And the state is trying to say "well you have an income, support yourself". So he decided to continue working for our paper and said that he would find a way to manage. He loved to write and did not want to quit. So we took up a collection for him to get him a new stereo system. Something that would make him very happy. Just the day before he passed away, a co-worker went over to his place and hooked up his new stereo. He was elated and extrememly thankful. So we do know one thing, he died a happy man.
Here is his story in the paper of the horrible luck this man has had and how overcame a few recent obstacles....
http://www.pressrepublican.com/archivesearch/local_story_364043026.html

Then you hear all of these things on the news of people dying... it seems like such a morbid day.
I know it's all quite depressing, so hopefully our night will be much better.