12.05.04

It’s been a really sad day. Katherine, our reference librarian, is very ill and was admitted to the hospital last night. She has worked at our library for over forty years and has hardly ever called in sick except for a few days after a surgery she had in the 80’s. She has always been a very private person so unfortunately we don’t really know what exactly is wrong with her. She called in sick Monday saying she had some kind of stomach virus. She was sick again yesterday then, apparently, her husband brought her to the hospital last night. One of the ladies that works here went to go see her husband today but all he said was that she would probably be there awhile and then he broke down and started crying. I would guess Katherine is probably in her 60’s but she’s always been such a fiesty lady. Very trim and energetic, always riding her bike to work when the weather would allow. It’s just hard to imagine her ill. I would like to hope that this is nothing series and that she will recover quickly but something tells me that’s not the case just because of the way her husband reacted. If a husband is crying then it must be something serious.
On top of that our children’s librarian has just found out that her mother has lymphoma. I guess they’re still going to do some more tests with another doctor tomorrow to make sure. There’s just so much sadness everywhere today.