It was a sad day today to learn that our friend Don Starnes from Ottawa has passed away at 40 leaving a wife and 2 small children age 8 and 5. His wife, Chantal, was my cadet way back in 1998 in Summerside. Don and Chantal transferred to London shortly after we did, and then followed us to Ottawa again. They lived 2 blocks away from us in Riverside South. I heard in October that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of AML (Leukemia), but in November he had a bone marrow transplant from his brother. After getting a Christmas card from them, I thought all was going well, until I heard that on March 8th Don was told that the transplant didn't work and he had weeks to live. I had a nice, but difficult, conversation with Don a couple of weeks ago and we had a chance to say our goodbyes. He passed away on April 7th.
We also got some more bad news today that an acquaintance/colleague of Kier's, the Chief of Cape Breton Regional Police, was found dead this a.m. in his vehicle. The shocking part to us was that we had seen him at the retirement function we were at yesterday and he seemed fine. He was 49.
WHAT I LEARNED TODAY: Sometimes my philosophy of "everything happens for a reason" is a tough pill to swallow.
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