A very sad start.....

 

On the first day of the New Year, I received some terrible news. A very good friend had passed away. He was a friend from Italy who had moved to the US to find a better life. He with a fellow Italian bought and opened a café and worked very hard for a number of years to build the business into a success. He just turned 41, just got married, just bought a condo, and now he is gone.

My friend was doing what he loved, surfing. He was out with his partner surfing and enjoying a morning off from work, it was rare for both to be off at the same time. While surfing, my friend had a rupture in the brain, an aneurism. He fell unconscious and was pulled from the water quickly, rushed to a hospital but never woke. His parents flew from Italy to be with him, they arrived on New Years day morning.

The doctors said there was no brain activity and that the damage was extensive. His parents decided to stop the life support and he died shortly after.

All his friends and all the people who met him were lucky to have met such a wonderful person. It is hard and shocking to think that someone so full of life can be gone so fast. We are all very sad to not have the chance to see his smile again.

 

Ciao my friend…