Hope he's better, MLG!
That American woman who worked where I do - that on yesterday, we found out she had passed away... It's a really sad story. As I mentioned on the other thread, she'd had ongoing health problems with her back, high blood pressure, asthma & breathing troubles (although she smoked like a chimney). She apparently went home from work early last Thursday or Friday, saying that one of her legs was hurting her quite a lot. One of my coworkers told her she really ought to go & get it checked out if it was hurting that badly. She said - no, she'd be fine & didn't go to the doctor, just went home.
And so she didn't turn up for work on Monday & didn't ring in. She was the primary receptionist & PA to the senior staff, so she would always ring in if she was poorly to let someone know what meetings, conferences, catering, etc were supposed to be on that day. Eventually after not hearing from her for awhile, they sent someone who knew where she lived over to check on her - either late Monday or early Tuesday. They knocked & couldn't raise anyone. Then they approached her landlord to see if he (or she) would let them in to see if she was okay. The landlord wouldn't let them in, but apparently called the police who found her. We don't know what she died of - probably won't until they do a post mortem. We wonder if she had a blood clot in the leg that was hurting her when she left, and also how long she had been dead (from when she left work that Thursday or Friday, until they found her on Tuesday).
She lived by herself with her cats. She has some family down around Gloucestershire, and some extended family in the US. Found out today that earlier this year she had finally located a son that she had given up for adoption when she was young, and they had plans for the whole family to get together for Christmas this year.
Like I said, I wasn't close friends with her, but everyone knew her. She was only around 58-59 years. Just so sad for her & her family & her cats.
