According to this week's meal plan, last night's supper was supposed to be Turkey Scalopini. The best laid plans are interrupted on occasion and yesterday was one of those occasions.
The phone rang at 6.15. My sister-in-law L informed us of our mother-in-laws death in Cape Town. You don't expect to send someone on holiday for them never to come home so this came as a shock. MIL suffered a fall just over 2 weeks ago and broke her leg. Despite speaking to her prior to the operation and ensuring her and ourselves that all would be okay, she was unlucky to experience a pulmonary embolism that she wouldn't recover from.
The whole of yesterday was spent in making arrangements, phone calls and discussions. Never would I have thought how complicated it could be to repatriate someone for burial.
The difficulties of multiple conversations that circle around to multiple participants is not to be underestimated.
The scenario here is that there are 2 brothers, 2 wives, a body overseas, a friend in CT helping, a cousin in CT helping and various agencies assisting. Phone calls back and forth between the various parties followed by the brothers talking multiple times a day to update each other. And still no definite answer as to when mother-in-law will be repatriated and a date for the funeral. We're all hoping that tomorrow, before Shabatt falls, that we will have an answer.
Oh, and by the way, it will be Turkey for supper tonight instead of last night. We still need to eat despite the circumstances.
The phone rang at 6.15. My sister-in-law L informed us of our mother-in-laws death in Cape Town. You don't expect to send someone on holiday for them never to come home so this came as a shock. MIL suffered a fall just over 2 weeks ago and broke her leg. Despite speaking to her prior to the operation and ensuring her and ourselves that all would be okay, she was unlucky to experience a pulmonary embolism that she wouldn't recover from.
The whole of yesterday was spent in making arrangements, phone calls and discussions. Never would I have thought how complicated it could be to repatriate someone for burial.
The difficulties of multiple conversations that circle around to multiple participants is not to be underestimated.
The scenario here is that there are 2 brothers, 2 wives, a body overseas, a friend in CT helping, a cousin in CT helping and various agencies assisting. Phone calls back and forth between the various parties followed by the brothers talking multiple times a day to update each other. And still no definite answer as to when mother-in-law will be repatriated and a date for the funeral. We're all hoping that tomorrow, before Shabatt falls, that we will have an answer.
Oh, and by the way, it will be Turkey for supper tonight instead of last night. We still need to eat despite the circumstances.
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